Lately I noticed that /_nodes/_local/stats command taking my cluster nodes more than 4s to retrieve stats and the cluster seems to be ok. cpu \ load 30% and heap 60-65% avg. Can you think about reason of why this happen? In addition, there is anyway to get these stats faster? Thanks D.

Node local stats slow 3 nodes cluster

panda87 (Panda87) July 6, 2016, 7:34am 6

3 nodes - 8GB

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