[[cat-templates]]
=== cat templates API
++++
<titleabbrev>cat templates</titleabbrev>
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Returns information about <<indices-templates,index templates>> in a cluster.
You can use index templates to apply <<index-modules-settings,index settings>>
and <<mapping,field mappings>> to new indices at creation.


[[cat-templates-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_cat/templates/<template_name>`


[[cat-templates-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<template_name>`::
(Optional, string) Comma-separated list of index template names used to limit
the request. Accepts wildcard expressions.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET /_cat/templates?v&s=name
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/templates/templates\/template*/]
// TEST[s/^/PUT _template\/template0\n{"index_patterns": "te*", "order": 0}\n/]
// TEST[s/^/PUT _template\/template1\n{"index_patterns": "tea*", "order": 1}\n/]
// TEST[s/^/PUT _template\/template2\n{"index_patterns": "teak*", "order": 2, "version": 7}\n/]
// The substitutions do two things:
// 1. Filter the response to just templates matching the te* pattern
//    so that we only get the templates we expect regardless of which
//    templates exist. If xpack is installed there will be unexpected
//    templates.
// 2. Create some templates to expect in the response.

The API returns the following response:

[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
name      index_patterns order version
template0 [te*]          0
template1 [tea*]         1
template2 [teak*]        2     7
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/\*/\\*/ s/\[/\\[/ s/\]/\\]/ non_json]