# What are ping requests good for?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 8, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313 "2010-09-08T21:54:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313/1 "2010-09-08T21:54:24Z")

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Hi,

what are ping requests good for?  
Single  
Broadcast  
Replication

Is this API considered stable enough to be documented?

Regards,  
Lukas

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313/2 "2010-09-09T09:05:14Z")

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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](mailto: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

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**Author:** ![gcstang\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@gcstang\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gcstang_2)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313/3 "2010-09-09T13:49:35Z")

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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.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com)wrote:

> 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](mailto: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

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-ping-requests-good-for/3313/4 "2017-07-06T04:19:33Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:19am UTC