The cat master operation lists information that helps identify the elected master node.
## Example
```
GET _cat/master?v
```
## Path and HTTP methods
```
GET _cat/master
```
## URL parameters
All cat master URL parameters are optional.
In addition to the [common URL parameters]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/rest-api/cat/index#common-url-parameters), you can specify the following parameters:
Parameter | Type | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
master_timeout | Time | The amount of time to wait for a connection to the master node. Default is 30 seconds.