Cluster state APIedit
Returns metadata about the state of the cluster.
Requestedit
GET /_cluster/state/<metrics>/<index>
Descriptionedit
The cluster state API allows access to metadata representing the state of the whole cluster. This includes information such as
- the set of nodes in the cluster
- all cluster-level settings
- information about the indices in the cluster, including their mappings and settings
- the locations of all the shards in the cluster.
The response is an internal representation of the cluster state and its format may change from version to version. If possible, you should obtain any information from the cluster state using the other, more stable, cluster APIs.
The response provides the cluster state itself, which can be filtered to only retrieve the parts of interest as described below.
The cluster’s cluster_uuid is also returned as part of the top-level response,
in addition to the metadata section.
[6.4.0]
Added in 6.4.0.
While the cluster is still forming, it is possible for the cluster_uuid
to be _na_ as well as the cluster state’s version to be -1.
By default, the cluster state request is routed to the master node, to ensure
that the latest cluster state is returned. For debugging purposes, you can
retrieve the cluster state local to a particular node by adding local=true to
the query string.
Path parametersedit
The cluster state contains information about all the indices in the cluster, including their mappings, as well as templates and other metadata. This means it can sometimes be quite large. To avoid the need to process all this information you can request only the part of the cluster state that you need:
-
<metrics> -
(Optional, string) A comma-separated list of the following options:
-
_all - Shows all metrics.
-
blocks -
Shows the
blockspart of the response. -
master_node -
Shows the elected
master_nodepart of the response. -
metadata -
Shows the
metadatapart of the response. If you supply a comma separated list of indices, the returned output will only contain metadata for these indices. -
nodes -
Shows the
nodespart of the response. -
routing_nodes -
Shows the
routing_nodespart of the response. -
routing_table -
Shows the
routing_tablepart of the response. If you supply a comma separated list of indices, the returned output will only contain the routing table for these indices. -
version - Shows the cluster state version.
-
-
<index> - (Optional, string) Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of index names used to limit the request.
Query parametersedit
-
allow_no_indices -
(Optional, boolean) If
true, the wildcard indices expression that resolves into no concrete indices will be ignored. (This includes_allstring or when no indices have been specified).Defaults to
true. -
expand_wildcards -
(Optional, string) Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices
that are open, closed or both. Available options:
open,closed,none,all. -
flat_settings -
(Optional, boolean) If
true, returns settings in flat format. Defaults tofalse. -
ignore_unavailable -
(Optional, boolean) If
true, unavailable indices (missing or closed) will be ignored. -
local -
(Optional, boolean) If
true, the request retrieves information from the local node only. Defaults tofalse, which means information is retrieved from the master node. -
master_timeout -
(Optional, time units) Specifies the period of time to wait for
a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout
expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to
30s. -
wait_for_metadata_version - (Optional, integer) Waits for the metadata version to be equal or greater than the specified metadata version.
-
wait_for_timeout - (Optional, time units) Specifies the maximum time to wait for wait_for_metadata_version before timing out.
Examplesedit
The following example returns only metadata and routing_table data for the
foo and bar indices:
GET /_cluster/state/metadata,routing_table/foo,bar
The next example returns everything for the foo and bar indices:
GET /_cluster/state/_all/foo,bar
This example returns only the blocks metadata:
GET /_cluster/state/blocks