[[cat-plugins]]
== cat plugins

The `plugins` command provides a view per node of running plugins. This information *spans nodes*.

[source,sh]
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% curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v'
name    component       version        description
I8hydUG discovery-gce   5.0.0          The Google Compute Engine (GCE) Discovery plugin allows to use GCE API for the unicast discovery mechanism.
I8hydUG lang-javascript 5.0.0          The JavaScript language plugin allows to have javascript as the language of scripts to execute.
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We can tell quickly how many plugins per node we have and which versions.