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Human readable, tabular cluster health with selected headers
Example uses basic HTTP syntax. Any <#> in the example should be removed when copying it.
Like most _cat APIs in
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?help causes the API to return the fields (and short names) as well as a brief description.
_cat/health has existed since Elasticsearch 1.x, but here is an example of its output from Elasticsearch 5.x: Fields available as-of this example's creation date:
epoch | t,time | seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00
timestamp | ts,hms,hhmmss | time in HH:MM:SS
cluster | cl | cluster name
status | st | health status
node.total | nt,nodeTotal | total number of nodes
node.data | nd,nodeData | number of nodes that can store data
shards | t,sh,shards.total,shardsTotal | total number of shards
pri | p,shards.primary,shardsPrimary | number of primary shards
relo | r,shards.relocating,shardsRelocating | number of relocating nodes
init | i,shards.initializing,shardsInitializing | number of initializing nodes
unassign | u,shards.unassigned,shardsUnassigned | number of unassigned shards
pending_tasks | pt,pendingTasks | number of pending tasks
max_task_wait_time | mtwt,maxTaskWaitTime | wait time of longest task pending
active_shards_percent | asp,activeShardsPercent | active number of shards in percent You can then use this to print only those fields:
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- h=... defines the list of fields that you want returned.
- v (verbose) defines that you want it to print the headers.
The output from an instance of Elasticsearch 5.x:
timestamp cl status
15:38:00 elasticsearch yellow