<p dir="auto">Currently there is no way to pull out the default settings unless you set them to something or unless you look at the source code. It would be nice to have an api endpoint for seeing all the settings as they are configured (default or not)</p>
<p dir="auto">We should provide an endpoint that dumps a map of all settings and their values.</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="    % curl localhost:9200/_config
    {
        &quot;cluster&quot;: {
            &quot;name&quot;: &quot;elasticsearch&quot;
        }, 
        &quot;index&quot;: {
            &quot;number_of_shards&quot;: 1
        }, 
        &quot;node&quot;: {
            &quot;data&quot;: true, 
            &quot;master&quot;: true
        },
        &quot;etc&quot;: &quot;...&quot;
    }"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">    % curl localhost:9200/_config
    {
        "cluster": {
            "name": "elasticsearch"
        }, 
        "index": {
            "number_of_shards": 1
        }, 
        "node": {
            "data": true, 
            "master": true
        },
        "etc": "..."
    }
</code></pre></div>