
Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook
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The previous recipe returns information only about the health of the cluster. If you need more details on your cluster, then you need to query its state.
The cluster state is the core of all functionalities and the metadata stored in Elasticsearch.
You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
In order to execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/) or Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/). You can use the Kibana console, as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.
To check the cluster state, we will perform the following steps:
GET
, and the curl
command is as follows:GET /_cluster/state