[[cat-plugins]]
=== cat plugins API
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<titleabbrev>cat plugins</titleabbrev>
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Returns a list of plugins running on each node of a cluster.


[[cat-plugins-tasks-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_cat/plugins`


[[cat-plugins-tasks-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=http-format]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-h]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=help]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=local]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=master-timeout]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-s]

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-v]


[[cat-plugins-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

[source,console]
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GET /_cat/plugins?v&s=component&h=name,component,version,description
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The API returns the following response:

["source","txt",subs="attributes,callouts"]
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name    component               version   description
U7321H6 analysis-icu            {version_qualified} The ICU Analysis plugin integrates the Lucene ICU module into Elasticsearch, adding ICU-related analysis components.
U7321H6 analysis-kuromoji       {version_qualified} The Japanese (kuromoji) Analysis plugin integrates Lucene kuromoji analysis module into elasticsearch.
U7321H6 analysis-nori           {version_qualified} The Korean (nori) Analysis plugin integrates Lucene nori analysis module into elasticsearch.
U7321H6 analysis-phonetic       {version_qualified} The Phonetic Analysis plugin integrates phonetic token filter analysis with elasticsearch.
U7321H6 analysis-smartcn        {version_qualified} Smart Chinese Analysis plugin integrates Lucene Smart Chinese analysis module into elasticsearch.
U7321H6 analysis-stempel        {version_qualified} The Stempel (Polish) Analysis plugin integrates Lucene stempel (polish) analysis module into elasticsearch.
U7321H6 analysis-ukrainian      {version_qualified} The Ukrainian Analysis plugin integrates the Lucene UkrainianMorfologikAnalyzer into elasticsearch.
U7321H6 discovery-azure-classic {version_qualified} The Azure Classic Discovery plugin allows to use Azure Classic API for the unicast discovery mechanism
U7321H6 discovery-ec2           {version_qualified} The EC2 discovery plugin allows to use AWS API for the unicast discovery mechanism.
U7321H6 discovery-gce           {version_qualified} The Google Compute Engine (GCE) Discovery plugin allows to use GCE API for the unicast discovery mechanism.
U7321H6 ingest-attachment       {version_qualified} Ingest processor that uses Apache Tika to extract contents
U7321H6 mapper-annotated-text   {version_qualified} The Mapper Annotated_text plugin adds support for text fields with markup used to inject annotation tokens into the index.
U7321H6 mapper-murmur3          {version_qualified} The Mapper Murmur3 plugin allows to compute hashes of a field's values at index-time and to store them in the index.
U7321H6 mapper-size             {version_qualified} The Mapper Size plugin allows document to record their uncompressed size at index time.
U7321H6 store-smb               {version_qualified} The Store SMB plugin adds support for SMB stores.
U7321H6 transport-nio           {version_qualified} The nio transport.
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