Get desired balance APIedit

This feature is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Direct use is not supported.

Exposes the desired balance and basic metrics.

Requestedit

GET /_internal/desired_balance

The API returns the following result:

{
  "stats": {
    "computation_active": false,
    "computation_submitted": 5,
    "computation_executed": 5,
    "computation_converged": 5,
    "computation_iterations": 4,
    "computation_converged_index": 4,
    "computation_time_in_millis": 0,
    "reconciliation_time_in_millis": 0
  },
  "routing_table": {
    "test": {
      "0": {
        "current": [
          {
            "state": "STARTED",
            "primary": true,
            "node": "UPYt8VwWTt-IADAEbqpLxA",
            "node_is_desired": true,
            "relocating_node": null,
            "relocating_node_is_desired": false,
            "shard_id": 0,
            "index": "test"
          }
        ],
        "desired": {
          "node_ids": [
            "UPYt8VwWTt-IADAEbqpLxA"
          ],
          "total": 1,
          "unassigned": 0,
          "ignored": 0
        }
      },
      "1": {
        "current": [
          {
            "state": "STARTED",
            "primary": true,
            "node": "2x1VTuSOQdeguXPdN73yRw",
            "node_is_desired": true,
            "relocating_node": null,
            "relocating_node_is_desired": false,
            "shard_id": 1,
            "index": "test"
          }
        ],
        "desired": {
          "node_ids": [
            "2x1VTuSOQdeguXPdN73yRw"
          ],
          "total": 1,
          "unassigned": 0,
          "ignored": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}