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[[managing-indices]]
== Managing Indices

The *Index management* UI enables you to view index settings,
The *Index Management* UI enables you to view index settings,
mappings, and statistics and perform management operations.
These include refreshing, flushing, clearing the cache, merging segments,
and closing or deleting indices. The UI provides a convenient way to
perform bulk operations on multiple indices.

To open the UI, select *Management > Index Management*. If security is enabled,
you must have the the `monitor` cluster privilege and the `view_index_metadata`
and `manage` index privileges to view the data. See
{xpack-ref}/security-privileges.html[Security Privileges] for more
information.

[role="screenshot"]
image::images/management-index-management.png[Index Management UI]

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