[[cat-allocation]] == cat allocation `allocation` provides a snapshot of how many shards are allocated to each data node and how much disk space they are using. [source,sh] -------------------------------------------------- % curl '192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/allocation?v' shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent host ip node 1 3.1gb 5.6gb 72.2gb 77.8gb 7.8 192.168.56.10 192.168.56.10 Jarella 1 3.1gb 5.6gb 72.2gb 77.8gb 7.8 192.168.56.30 192.168.56.30 Solarr 1 3.0gb 5.5gb 72.3gb 77.8gb 7.6 192.168.56.20 192.168.56.20 Adam II -------------------------------------------------- Here we can see that each node has been allocated a single shard and that they're all using about the same amount of space.