---
name: "curator"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "elasticsearch-curator"
version: "8.0.21-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/curator"
---

# curator(1)

Elasticsearch time-series index manager

## NAME

**curator** - Elasticsearch time-series index manager

## SYNOPSIS

curator \[--config CONFIG.YML\] \[--dry-run\] ACTION\_FILE.YML

## DESCRIPTION

**curator** helps manage Elasticsearch time-series indices. It provides an easy way to perform index administration tasks, such as managing aliases, optimizing indices, changing the replica count and modifying index allocation using routing tags.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  show program usage and exit

- **-v**, **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

- **--config** PATH

  Path to configuration file. Default: ~/.curator/curator.yml

- **--dry-run**

  Do not perform any changes.

  ACTION\_FILE is a YAML curator action file. For more information on action files, consult **/usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-curator/reference.txt.gz**.

## EXIT CODES

Exit codes will indicate success or failure.

- 0

  Success

- 1

  Failure

- \-1

  An exception was raised that does not result in an exit code of 1

## SEE ALSO

[**es\_repo\_mgr**(1)](/es_repo_mgr/1.md), [**curator\_cli**(1)](/curator_cli/1.md)

Additional documentation for **curator** can be found at the project's wiki at https://github.com/elasticsearch/curator/wiki and (on Debian systems) under **/usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-curator/reference.txt.gz**.

## AUTHOR

**curator** was originally written by Aaron Mildenstein \<aaron@mildensteins.com\>. It is currently maintained by Elasticsearch \<http://www.elasticsearch.org/\>.

This manual page was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos \<apoikos@debian.org\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

## LICENSE

This software is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See /usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-curator/copyright for more details.

Copyright 2011-2016 Elasticsearch and contributors.