CAT health

Introduced 1.0

The CAT health operation lists the status of the cluster, how long the cluster has been up, the number of nodes, and other useful information that helps you analyze the health of your cluster.

Example

  1. GET _cat/health?v

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Path and HTTP methods

  1. GET _cat/health?v

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URL parameters

All CAT health URL parameters are optional.

ParameterTypeDescription
timeTimeSpecify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units.
tsBooleanIf true, returns HH:MM:SS and Unix epoch timestamps. Default is true.

Response

  1. GET _cat/health?v&time=5d
  3. epoch | timestamp | cluster | status | node.total | node.data | shards | pri | relo | init | unassign | pending_tasks | max_task_wait_time | active_shards_percent
  4. 1624248112 | 04:01:52 | odfe-cluster | green | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 100.0%