# Best way to monitor a single node?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-monitor-a-single-node/97716>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 21, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-monitor-a-single-node/97716 "2017-08-21T07:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![siepkes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/siepkes/32/21317_2.png) [@siepkes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/siepkes)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-monitor-a-single-node/97716/1 "2017-08-21T07:24:39Z")

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I'm looking in to what the best way is to asses the "health" of a single Elastic Search node (ie. is it running? Has it joined the cluster? etc.). I know about the `/_cluster/health` API but that only provides me with the health of the entire cluster. I also know about the `/_nodes` API but that seems to be more geared toward providing metrics about nodes. Can't really find anything about health.

My goal is to add a simple health check to my ElasticSearch Consul node for the local node. Monitoring the cluster itself is something I also do, but that's something entirely different. So I'm really looking for something to run on the machine / VM itself which tells me the state of the node on this machine / VM.

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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:** [September 18, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-monitor-a-single-node/97716/2 "2017-09-18T07:24:55Z")

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