How to check if connection to Elasticsearch is established?

Question

I want to check if the connection to Elasticsearch database is ok. In other words I want to ping Elasticsearch. When I execute the code below, an exception is thrown.

    public async Task<HealthCheckResult> Execute()
    {
        if (_configuration.Nodes?.Length == 0)
        {
            await Task.Delay(1);
            return new HealthCheckResult("Connection Failed - Missing elasticsearch connection string")
            {
                ChildResults = new List<HealthCheckResult>() {new HealthCheckResult()}
            };
        }

        var node = new Uri(_configuration.Nodes.First());


        try
        {
            var connectionPool = new SniffingConnectionPool(new[] {node});
            var settings = new ConnectionConfiguration(connectionPool);
            var client = new ElasticLowLevelClient(settings);
            client.IndicesExists<string>("applications");
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            return new HealthCheckResult(exception.Message)
            {
                ChildResults = new List<HealthCheckResult>() { new HealthCheckResult() }
            };
        }

        return new HealthCheckResult("Connection Passed")
        {
            ChildResults = new List<HealthCheckResult>() { new HealthCheckResult() }
        };
    }

When I execute method above, exception is thrown and I get this message:

Failed sniffing cluster state.

What can I do to check if the connection to Elasticsearch is established?

What version of NEST are you using and what version of Elasticsearch are you running against? Set `.DisableDirectStreaming()` on the `ConnectionSettings` to get more detail about the cluster state sniffing fail. — Russ Cam, Feb 06 '17 at 08:35

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '18 at 15:14

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The Nest IElasticClient interface provides a Ping method for this purpose

answered Jan 11 '18 at 15:14

Rob Willis

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 20 '17 at 10:51

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I was having the same problem and I managed to fix this by changing the SniffingConnectionPool to a SingleNodeConnectionPool.

edited Feb 20 '17 at 10:51

Matthew Walton

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answered Feb 20 '17 at 10:33

StephenSpectre

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How to check if connection to Elasticsearch is established?

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