# Nodes Stats Breaker Tripped Meaning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-stats-breaker-tripped-meaning/359392>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 13, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-stats-breaker-tripped-meaning/359392 "2024-05-13T15:52:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jquisenberry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jquisenberry/32/134062_2.png) [@jquisenberry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jquisenberry)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-stats-breaker-tripped-meaning/359392/1 "2024-05-13T15:52:56Z")

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In the Nodes Stats API, what does `"tripped": ###` mean? I am running version 7.17.

I understand that tripping a circuit breaker means that some activity has caused JVM heap consumption in excess of `limit_size`.

What I would like to know is what does the numeric value of `tripped` mean? It appears to be a monotonically increasing value. Is it ever reset to 0?

**Example**

```auto
GET /_nodes/stats/breaker/

```

```auto
                "parent": {
                    "limit_size_in_bytes": 30601641984,
                    "limit_size": "28.5gb",
                    "estimated_size_in_bytes": 29839003560,
                    "estimated_size": "27.7gb",
                    "overhead": 1.0,
                    "tripped": 5537236
                }

```

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-stats-breaker-tripped-meaning/359392/2 "2026-02-17T11:00:33Z")

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Hi @jquisenberry,

As per the documentation located [here](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-nodes-stats#operation-nodes-stats-responses), it refers to:

> Total number of times the circuit breaker has been triggered and prevented an out of memory error

Hope that helps!