# Inter-Node Response Times

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669 "2019-04-26T15:07:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/1 "2019-04-26T15:07:52Z")

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Hi,  
Is there a metric I can track which will tell me how long nodes are taking to respond to pings and cluster state updates?

Regards,  
D

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/2 "2019-04-26T15:21:17Z")

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No, this is not something that Elasticsearch tracks. You could work it out with sufficiently verbose logging. Why do you want to know these metrics? I'm not sure they tell you very much about the overall performance of the system.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/3 "2019-04-29T06:26:39Z")

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Am seeing periodic very high response times so want to track those response time to see the behaviour in more detail.

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/4 "2019-04-29T09:19:34Z")

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> [@dawiro](#):
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> very high response times

What exactly are you measuring here? Do you mean searches and/or indexing are slow? Pings and cluster state updates are both interactions between each node and the elected master, and this is normally not something that happens during searches or indexing, so it's unlikely that these metrics will help with your investigations.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/5 "2019-04-29T10:39:25Z")

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I'm seeing periodic very high latency (around a minute) on pings and cluster state updates. This is a new environment so isn't very loaded

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/6 "2019-04-29T11:29:53Z")

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Ok, turning your original question round, how are you seeing the high latency on these messages? Logs? If so, can you share the messages you're seeing?

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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:** [May 27, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inter-node-response-times/178669/7 "2019-05-27T11:42:55Z")

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