# Is there a way to check ES busy status **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 1, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-check-es-busy-status/206124 "2019-11-01T07:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@May](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/May)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-check-es-busy-status/206124/1 "2019-11-01T07:30:08Z")
I am using ES as backend for an app. To avoid ES not responding due to concurrent requests at the same time, is there a way to check ES busy status? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-check-es-busy-status/206124/2 "2019-11-04T10:17:58Z")
Checking node stats for search thread pool rejections might be a good idea. However those rejections are temporary which means that you might want to retry your request. Also it might be, that only a single node does not respond, but you are good with getting partial results. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/cluster-nodes-stats.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/cluster-nodes-stats.html) Also [Stack Monitoring](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.4/xpack-monitoring.html) might be worth a look! --Alex ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-check-es-busy-status/206124/3 "2019-12-02T10:18:02Z")
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