Cluster State

The cluster state API allows to get a comprehensive state information of the whole cluster.

GET /_cluster/state

The response provides the cluster name, the total compressed size of the cluster state (its size when serialized for transmission over the network), and the cluster state itself, which can be filtered to only retrieve the parts of interest, as described below.

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.

As the cluster state can grow (depending on the number of shards and indices, your mapping, templates), it is possible to filter the cluster state response specifying the parts in the URL.

GET /_cluster/state/{metrics}/{indices}

metrics can be a comma-separated list of

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

And this example return only blocks data:

GET /_cluster/state/blocks