# High Value of total\_opened http connection in node stats when ES Cluster is idle
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968 "2015-08-24T17:37:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968/1 "2015-08-24T17:37:27Z")
I have a simple ELK deployment in which logstash is pushing log events to elasticsearch cluster. The elasticsearch cluster has 4 nodes out of which there are 3 master + data nodes and one client node. The logstash configuration for Elasticsearch output is as follows:-
```
output {
elasticsearch {
index => "test-2015-08-18"
}
}
```
I am seeing a high number of total\_opened http connection about 50-60 K (per node) but this number is constant. This stays at this even when there are hardly any indexing or query being done on the elasticsearch. Is this expected?
The [node-monitoring guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_monitoring_individual_nodes.html#_fs_and_network_sections) states:-
> If you see a very large total\_opened number that is constantly increasing, that is a sure sign that one of your HTTP clients is not using keep-alive connections.
Since in my case the number 50-60 K is constant so is it ok and nothing to worry about?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968/2 "2015-08-24T23:08:25Z")
It's constant so I wouldn't worry _too_ much, but it'd be interesting to see why it's that high.
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### Author:  [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968/3 "2015-08-25T05:22:34Z")
Thanks Mark.
Is there a way I can see what all http connections are opened by elasticsearch. Doing `netstat | grep http` is returning empty results?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968/4 "2015-08-25T07:47:40Z")
There's no way to get that from ES unfortunately, we just don't provide visibility into that ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-value-of-total-opened-http-connection-in-node-stats-when-es-cluster-is-idle/27968/5 "2017-07-05T23:54:03Z")