# Understanding Cluster health from local node
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765 "2018-10-24T09:40:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sss)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765/1 "2018-10-24T09:40:48Z")
Hello,
what does it mean to do GET /\_cluster/health? with local = true passed as query parameter
ElasticSearch documentation says
If true returns the local node information and does not provide the state from master node. Default: false.
Does this mean that setting local to true will give a cluster health as seen from local node ? or does it tell about the state of the indices/shards that are present in local node as opposed to masternode. If latter holds true, what does the status green|red|yellow status indicate since we are talking about only 1 node and not the master
In what scenarios setting local to true and setting local to false will give different results?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765/2 "2018-10-24T09:42:39Z")
> [@sss](#):
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> Does this mean that setting local to true will give a cluster health as seen from local node
Yes, you could use it to tell if there's been a split brain for eg.
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### Author:  [@sss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sss)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765/3 "2018-10-24T09:45:03Z")
does this also mean,
when there is no split brain, setting local to true is same as setting to false ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765/4 "2018-10-24T09:46:17Z")
The results should be the same, yes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-cluster-health-from-local-node/153765/5 "2018-11-21T09:46:19Z")
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