[[cluster-remote-info]]
=== Remote cluster info API
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<titleabbrev>Remote cluster info</titleabbrev>
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Returns configured remote cluster information.


[[cluster-remote-info-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_remote/info`


[[cluster-remote-info-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

The cluster remote info API allows you to retrieve all of the configured
remote cluster information. It returns connection and endpoint information keyed 
by the configured remote cluster alias.


[[cluster-remote-info-api-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`seeds`::
	The configured initial seed transport addresses of the remote cluster.

`connected`::
	True if there is at least one connection to the remote cluster.

`num_nodes_connected`::
    The number of connected nodes in the remote cluster.

`max_connections_per_cluster`::
	The maximum number of connections maintained for the remote cluster.

`initial_connect_timeout`::
	The initial connect timeout for remote cluster connections.

[[skip-unavailable]]
`skip_unavailable`::
    Whether the remote cluster is skipped in case it is searched through
    a {ccs} request but none of its nodes are available.