# Does cat API verify results with other nodes, or only locally?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cat-api-verify-results-with-other-nodes-or-only-locally/17398
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 7, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cat-api-verify-results-with-other-nodes-or-only-locally/17398 "2014-05-07T20:31:38Z")
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### Author:  [@H\_Gesserti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/H_Gesserti)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cat-api-verify-results-with-other-nodes-or-only-locally/17398/1 "2014-05-07T20:31:38Z")
When I make a call to, say, \_cat/allocation, does it only check local node
state, or does it make calls to other nodes in the cluster to verify?
I was looking comparing \_cat behavior to \_cluster/health under heavy load,
and the two seem to perform the same under load.
At the same time, I tried \_nodes/\_local/stats/name, and it performed much
better than either. Why is that?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cat-api-verify-results-with-other-nodes-or-only-locally/17398/2 "2014-06-01T19:49:38Z")
Hey
most of the cat APIs support the local HTTP request parameter, which uses
the local cluster state instead of redirecting a request to the master (so
you can have the same behaviour than using \_local).
--Alex
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:31 PM, H Gesserti [h.gesserit@gmail.com](mailto:h.gesserit@gmail.com) wrote:
> When I make a call to, say, \_cat/allocation, does it only check local node
> state, or does it make calls to other nodes in the cluster to verify?
> I was looking comparing \_cat behavior to \_cluster/health under heavy load,
> and the two seem to perform the same under load.
>
> At the same time, I tried \_nodes/\_local/stats/name, and it performed much
> better than either. Why is that?
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cat-api-verify-results-with-other-nodes-or-only-locally/17398/3 "2017-07-06T01:25:24Z")