What are ping requests good for?

Hi,

what are ping requests good for?
Single
Broadcast
Replication

Is this API considered stable enough to be documented?

Regards,
Lukas

I use it to test latency and throughput of type of operations without
actually them doing something. Not sure if it needs to be documented, might
confuse people...

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Lukáš Vlček lukas.vlcek@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

what are ping requests good for?
Single
Broadcast
Replication

Is this API considered stable enough to be documented?

Regards,
Lukas

I do the same thing on a enterprise scale back end system it's very helpful
or can be

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Shay Banon shay.banon@elasticsearch.comwrote:

I use it to test latency and throughput of type of operations without
actually them doing something. Not sure if it needs to be documented, might
confuse people...

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Lukáš Vlček lukas.vlcek@gmail.comwrote:

Hi,

what are ping requests good for?
Single
Broadcast
Replication

Is this API considered stable enough to be documented?

Regards,
Lukas