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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.

Path and HTTP methods

GET _cat/health?v

Query parameters

Parameter Type Description
time Time Specify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units.
ts Boolean If true, returns HH:MM:SS and Unix epoch timestamps. Default is true.

Example request

The following example request give cluster health information for the past 5 days:

GET _cat/health?v&time=5d

Example response

GET _cat/health?v&time=5d

epoch | timestamp | cluster | status | node.total | node.data | shards | pri | relo | init | unassign | pending_tasks | max_task_wait_time | active_shards_percent
1624248112 | 04:01:52 | odfe-cluster | green | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 100.0%
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