CAT fielddata

Introduced 0.1.0

The CAT fielddata operation lists the memory size used by each field per node.

Example

GET _cat/fielddata?v

To limit the information to a specific field, add the field name after your query:

GET _cat/fielddata/<field_name>?v

If you want to get information for more than one field, separate the field names with commas:

GET _cat/fielddata/field_name_1,field_name_2,field_name_3

Path and HTTP methods

GET _cat/fielddata?v
GET _cat/fielddata/<field_name>?v

URL parameters

All CAT fielddata URL parameters are optional.

In addition to the common URL parameters, you can specify the following parameter:

Response

The following response shows the memory size for all fields as 284 bytes:

id                     host       ip         node       field size
1vo54NuxSxOrbPEYdkSF0w 172.18.0.4 172.18.0.4 odfe-node1 _id   284b
ZaIkkUd4TEiAihqJGkp5CA 172.18.0.3 172.18.0.3 odfe-node2 _id   284b