How do you know what the active master node of an Elasticsearch cluster is?

Tremaine Eto
Towards Dev
Published in
2 min readJul 25, 2023

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An Elasticsearch cluster heavily depends on master nodes and specifically the active master node.

You definitely want to make sure that it’s working well, but to know that, you’ll have to find out what the master node actually is.

To do that, first of all, you’re going to need access to the Elasticsearch…

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