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Boaz Leskes 6953777c3a API: add pending tasks count to cluster health
The number of current pending tasks is useful to detect and overloaded master. This commit adds it to the cluster health API. The complete list can be retrieved from the dedicated pending tasks API.

It also adds rest tests for the cluster health variants.

Closes #9877
2015-02-25 14:58:44 +01:00

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[[cat-health]]
== cat health
`health` is a terse, one-line representation of the same information
from `/_cluster/health`. It has one option `ts` to disable the
timestamping.
[source,shell]
--------------------------------------------------
% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/health
1384308967 18:16:07 foo green 3 3 3 3 0 0 0
% curl '192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/health?v&ts=0'
cluster status nodeTotal nodeData shards pri relo init unassign tasks
foo green 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
--------------------------------------------------
A common use of this command is to verify the health is consistent
across nodes:
[source,shell]
--------------------------------------------------
% pssh -i -h list.of.cluster.hosts curl -s localhost:9200/_cat/health
[1] 20:20:52 [SUCCESS] es3.vm
1384309218 18:20:18 foo green 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
[2] 20:20:52 [SUCCESS] es1.vm
1384309218 18:20:18 foo green 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
[3] 20:20:52 [SUCCESS] es2.vm
1384309218 18:20:18 foo green 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
--------------------------------------------------
A less obvious use is to track recovery of a large cluster over
time. With enough shards, starting a cluster, or even recovering after
losing a node, can take time (depending on your network & disk). A way
to track its progress is by using this command in a delayed loop:
[source,shell]
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% while true; do curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/health; sleep 120; done
1384309446 18:24:06 foo red 3 3 20 20 0 0 1812 0
1384309566 18:26:06 foo yellow 3 3 950 916 0 12 870 0
1384309686 18:28:06 foo yellow 3 3 1328 916 0 12 492 0
1384309806 18:30:06 foo green 3 3 1832 916 4 0 0
^C
--------------------------------------------------
In this scenario, we can tell that recovery took roughly four minutes.
If this were going on for hours, we would be able to watch the
`UNASSIGNED` shards drop precipitously. If that number remained
static, we would have an idea that there is a problem.
[float]
[[timestamp]]
=== Why the timestamp?
You typically are using the `health` command when a cluster is
malfunctioning. During this period, it's extremely important to
correlate activities across log files, alerting systems, etc.
There are two outputs. The `HH:MM:SS` output is simply for quick
human consumption. The epoch time retains more information, including
date, and is machine sortable if your recovery spans days.