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# Actions [actions]

Actions are the tasks which Curator can perform on your indices.  Snapshots, once created, can only be deleted.

* [Alias](/reference/alias.md)
* [Allocation](/reference/allocation.md)
* [Close](/reference/close.md)
* [Cluster Routing](/reference/cluster_routing.md)
* [Cold2Frozen](/reference/cold2frozen.md)
* [Create Index](/reference/create_index.md)
* [Delete Indices](/reference/delete_indices.md)
* [Delete Snapshots](/reference/delete_snapshots.md)
* [forceMerge](/reference/forcemerge.md)
* [Index Settings](/reference/index_settings.md)
* [Open](/reference/open.md)
* [Reindex](/reference/reindex.md)
* [Replicas](/reference/replicas.md)
* [Restore](/reference/restore.md)
* [Rollover](/reference/rollover.md)
* [Shrink](/reference/shrink.md)
* [Snapshot](/reference/snapshot.md)

