==== Checking that Elasticsearch is running You can test that your Elasticsearch node is running by sending an HTTP request to port `9200` on `localhost`: [source,js] -------------------------------------------- GET / -------------------------------------------- // CONSOLE which should give you a response something like this: ["source","js",subs="attributes,callouts"] -------------------------------------------- { "name" : "Cp8oag6", "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch", "cluster_uuid" : "AT69_T_DTp-1qgIJlatQqA", "version" : { "number" : "{version_qualified}", "build_flavor" : "{build_flavor}", "build_type" : "{build_type}", "build_hash" : "f27399d", "build_date" : "2016-03-30T09:51:41.449Z", "build_snapshot" : false, "lucene_version" : "{lucene_version}", "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3", "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" } -------------------------------------------- // TESTRESPONSE[s/"name" : "Cp8oag6",/"name" : "$body.name",/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",/"cluster_name" : "$body.cluster_name",/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"cluster_uuid" : "AT69_T_DTp-1qgIJlatQqA",/"cluster_uuid" : "$body.cluster_uuid",/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"build_hash" : "f27399d",/"build_hash" : "$body.version.build_hash",/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"build_date" : "2016-03-30T09:51:41.449Z",/"build_date" : $body.version.build_date,/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"build_snapshot" : false,/"build_snapshot" : $body.version.build_snapshot,/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3"/"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : $body.version.minimum_wire_compatibility_version/] // TESTRESPONSE[s/"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3"/"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : $body.version.minimum_index_compatibility_version/] // So much s/// but at least we test that the layout is close to matching....