# \_node query - need help

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-node-query-need-help/25456>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-node-query-need-help/25456 "2015-07-13T15:18:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-node-query-need-help/25456/1 "2015-07-13T15:18:02Z")

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Hi,

with `curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes'` I can find some information about my node(s).  
The result looks like

```
{
"cluster_name" : "clustername",
"nodes" : {
"Pd23jshlTYO7yXNEsPM4tw" : {
"name" : "someName",
"host" : "myhost"
}
} 

```

Now I would like to filter the result of the query, so that for example the return value would be "myhost".

How must the query look like for getting that information?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-node-query-need-help/25456/2 "2015-07-13T15:27:30Z")

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From version 1.6 onwards you can filter paths in the response using the [response filtering options](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#_response_filtering). This should give you what you want.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-node-query-need-help/25456/3 "2017-07-06T00:01:48Z")

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