Getting the Status of a Cluster Node
Asked by Richard Briggs:

I admin *both* Jira and Confluence Data Center instances on ++RHEL8 Linux.++   

Jira has this nifty feature where I can immediately gather the status of the server and act on that status: You simply query **<https://server.com:8080/status>** and a status of that node is returned as a json payload.

I tried similar queries on my confluence nodes and no dice. **Does anyone know of a way to GET the status of a confluence node so that my load balancer can act on the result?**   

thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Rilwan Ahmed
body: Hi [@Richard Briggs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5189182) ,

Welcome to the community !!

This feature is **not** enabled in confluence data centre. There is already a suggestion requests made with Atlassian. Please vote and watch for the updates.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-60210>

comments: author: Richard Briggs
body: Where's good ol' SNMP when you need it?! :-) Thanks Rilwan. I have cast my vote!


author: Richard Briggs
body: It's ![deleteme.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/268235i42A14482C3C1ECE1/image-dimensions/51x47?v=v2 "deleteme.png")![deleteme.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/268234i7B5DBCDB2A190B79/image-size/small?v=v2&px=200 "deleteme.png") to me that there is not an Query be it API, SNMP, REST, anything that simply tells the individual status of a node in a confluence cluster. The internal code somehow knows if a node has a status other than "RUNNING" cluster! How?

The official answer is: "

*I'm sorry, but the specific functionality that you are looking for does not exist. This information is available in the UI only. There is a feature request to add this functionality to the API:*

* [CONFSERVER-60210: Suggest a REST API method to get results for clustering monitoring](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-60210)

so I guess go to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-60210> and vote that this would be nice to know ++**WITHOUT**++going to the GUI


author: Richard Briggs
body: It's ![deleteme.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/268236iF2433893A2C7B7E3/image-dimensions/71x65?v=v2 "deleteme.png")to me that there is not an API, SNMP, REST, JQL that simply tells the individual status of a node in a confluence cluster.


author: Laurie Sciutti
body: Hey [@Richard Briggs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5189182) \~ you should be able to use /status to return that info on Confluence as well. I just confirmed this in my instance. Maybe try without the port info? \<*base Confluence URL\>*/status

Also, there may be additional information in the links on the Clustering Admin page *\<baseURL\>*/plugins/servlet/cluster-monitoring.

HTH

comments: author: Richard Briggs
body: Hey Laurie thanks . I did notice that it worked for the the base_url, but not for the individual nodes in the cluster. I can't seem to find any way to ask the nodes what their individual status is from the load-balancer either with a GET or curl or anything thusfar. How can we know if an individual node is indexing or otherwise ...indisposed. ?


Tags: data-center