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Nodes info API

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Nodes info API

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Returns cluster nodes information.

Request

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GET /_nodes

GET /_nodes/<node_id>

GET /_nodes/<metric>

GET /_nodes/<node_id>/<metric>

Prerequisites

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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the monitor or manage cluster privilege to use this API.

Description

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The cluster nodes info API allows to retrieve one or more (or all) of the cluster nodes information. All the nodes selective options are explained here.

By default, it returns all attributes and core settings for a node.

Path parameters

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<metric>

(Optional, string) Limits the information returned to the specific metrics. Supports a comma-separated list, such as http,ingest.

Valid values for <metric>

aggregations

Information about the available types of aggregation.

http

Information about the HTTP interface of this node.

indices

Node-level configuration related to indexing:

total_indexing_buffer: the maximum size of the indexing buffer on this node.

ingest

Information about ingest pipelines and processors.

jvm

JVM information, including its name, its version, and its configuration.

os

Operating system information, including its name and version.

plugins

Details about the installed plugins and modules per node. The following information is available for each plugin and module:

name: plugin name
version: version of Elasticsearch the plugin was built for
description: short description of the plugin’s purpose
classname: fully-qualified class name of the plugin’s entry point
has_native_controller: whether or not the plugin has a native controller process

process

Process information, including the numeric process ID.

settings

Lists all node settings in use as defined in the elasticsearch.yml file.

thread_pool

Information about the configuration of each thread pool.

transport

Information about the transport interface of the node.

If you use the full GET /_nodes/<node_id>/<metric> form of this API then you can also request the metric _all to retrieve all metrics, or you can request the metric _none to suppress all metrics and retrieve only the identity of the node.

<node_id>: (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of node IDs or names used to limit returned information.

Response body

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build_hash: Short hash of the last git commit in this release.
host: The node’s host name.
ip: The node’s IP address.
name: The node’s name.
total_indexing_buffer: Total heap allowed to be used to hold recently indexed documents before they must be written to disk. This size is a shared pool across all shards on this node, and is controlled by Indexing Buffer settings.
total_indexing_buffer_in_bytes: Same as total_indexing_buffer, but expressed in bytes.
transport_address: Host and port where transport HTTP connections are accepted.
version: Elasticsearch version running on this node.

The os flag can be set to retrieve information that concern the operating system:

os.refresh_interval_in_millis: Refresh interval for the OS statistics
os.name: Name of the operating system (ex: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
os.arch: Name of the JVM architecture (ex: amd64, x86)
os.version: Version of the operating system
os.available_processors: Number of processors available to the Java virtual machine
os.allocated_processors: The number of processors actually used to calculate thread pool size. This number can be set with the node.processors setting of a node and defaults to the number of processors reported by the OS.

The process flag can be set to retrieve information that concern the current running process:

process.refresh_interval_in_millis: Refresh interval for the process statistics
process.id: Process identifier (PID)
process.mlockall: Indicates if the process address space has been successfully locked in memory

Query parameters

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flat_settings: (Optional, Boolean) If true, returns settings in flat format. Defaults to false.
master_timeout: (Optional, time units) Period 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.
timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

Examples

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# return just process
GET /_nodes/process

# same as above
GET /_nodes/_all/process

# return just jvm and process of only nodeId1 and nodeId2
GET /_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/jvm,process

# same as above
GET /_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/info/jvm,process

# return all the information of only nodeId1 and nodeId2
GET /_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/_all

The _all flag can be set to return all the information - or you can omit it.

Example for plugins metric

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If plugins is specified, the result will contain details about the installed plugins and modules:

GET /_nodes/plugins

The API returns the following response:

{
  "_nodes": ...
  "cluster_name": "elasticsearch",
  "nodes": {
    "USpTGYaBSIKbgSUJR2Z9lg": {
      "name": "node-0",
      "transport_address": "192.168.17:9300",
      "host": "node-0.elastic.co",
      "ip": "192.168.17",
      "version": "{version}",
      "build_flavor": "default",
      "build_type": "{build_type}",
      "build_hash": "587409e",
      "roles": [
        "master",
        "data",
        "ingest"
      ],
      "attributes": {},
      "plugins": [
        {
          "name": "analysis-icu",
          "version": "{version}",
          "description": "The ICU Analysis plugin integrates Lucene ICU module into elasticsearch, adding ICU relates analysis components.",
          "classname": "org.elasticsearch.plugin.analysis.icu.AnalysisICUPlugin",
          "has_native_controller": false
        }
      ],
      "modules": [
        {
          "name": "lang-painless",
          "version": "{version}",
          "description": "An easy, safe and fast scripting language for Elasticsearch",
          "classname": "org.elasticsearch.painless.PainlessPlugin",
          "has_native_controller": false
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example for ingest metric

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If ingest is specified, the response contains details about the available processors per node:

GET /_nodes/ingest

The API returns the following response:

{
  "_nodes": ...
  "cluster_name": "elasticsearch",
  "nodes": {
    "USpTGYaBSIKbgSUJR2Z9lg": {
      "name": "node-0",
      "transport_address": "192.168.17:9300",
      "host": "node-0.elastic.co",
      "ip": "192.168.17",
      "version": "{version}",
      "build_flavor": "default",
      "build_type": "{build_type}",
      "build_hash": "587409e",
      "roles": [],
      "attributes": {},
      "ingest": {
        "processors": [
          {
            "type": "date"
          },
          {
            "type": "uppercase"
          },
          {
            "type": "set"
          },
          {
            "type": "lowercase"
          },
          {
            "type": "gsub"
          },
          {
            "type": "convert"
          },
          {
            "type": "remove"
          },
          {
            "type": "fail"
          },
          {
            "type": "foreach"
          },
          {
            "type": "split"
          },
          {
            "type": "trim"
          },
          {
            "type": "rename"
          },
          {
            "type": "join"
          },
          {
            "type": "append"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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