# How can I check that settings from elasticsearch.yml are loaded correctly **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 24, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-check-that-settings-from-elasticsearch-yml-are-loaded-correctly/50809 "2016-05-24T08:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dominik\_Stadler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Dominik\_Stadler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dominik_Stadler)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-check-that-settings-from-elasticsearch-yml-are-loaded-correctly/50809/1 "2016-05-24T08:51:34Z")
A quick one: I have a number of Elasticsearch clusters that we monitor. We set some configuration settings in the elasticsearch.yml file, e.g. minimum\_master\_nodes and thread-pools. Is there a way to read the current value of these settings via the REST interface? \_cluster/settings only contains what was set via REST (see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/cluster-update-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/cluster-update-settings.html)), but not things that were read via the config-files so I did not find a way to check which value a cluster currently actually uses... Thanks... Dominik. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-check-that-settings-from-elasticsearch-yml-are-loaded-correctly/50809/2 "2016-05-24T08:53:25Z")
There is no single API that can give this at the moment, I think there is something coming in 5.0. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-check-that-settings-from-elasticsearch-yml-are-loaded-correctly/50809/3 "2017-07-05T22:49:37Z")