Monitoring OpenSearch cluster, node groups, and nodes

Last update: September 15 2026Open in Markdown

In Managed Databases OpenSearch, you can monitor the state of a cluster, node groups, and nodes in the Control panel.

You can:

• view cluster state;
• view cluster and node group statuses;
• view node statuses in node groups.

The cluster state indicates the health of its nodes. Statuses indicate operations on the cluster, node groups, and nodes. You can view the operation history.

For a more detailed analysis, you can view cluster node metrics as graphs in the Control panel.

When analyzing charts, note that the time in the control panel corresponds to the time on your device and does not depend on the region where the cluster is located.

note

For example, you created a cluster in Tashkent, in the uz-1 pool. The device from which you logged in to the control panel is set to the Moscow time zone. The time on the metric charts will be displayed in the Moscow time zone.

View cluster state

1. In the Control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Databases.

2. Go to the Active tab.

3. In the cluster card, check its state.

   Running	The cluster is running properly
   Degraded	One or more nodes are unavailable or operating with restrictions. Check node statuses. If you are unable to determine the reason on your own, file a ticket
   Down	All cluster nodes are unavailable, file a ticket
   Unknown	The cluster is being created or its state is unknown. If a cluster with a status other than CREATING has this state, file a ticket

View cluster and node group statuses

1. In the Control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Databases.

2. Go to the Active tab.

3. In the cluster card, check the cluster statuses and node group statuses.

Cluster statuses

CREATING	The cluster is being created
ACTIVE	The cluster is active, no operations are being performed on it
UPDATING	The cluster is being updated
RESIZING	The cluster is being resized
REBUILDING	Cluster nodes are being rebuilt
LOCKING	The cluster is being locked
LOCKED	The cluster is locked. The status may appear due to resource suspension if the balance is insufficient. To unblock the cluster, top up the balance. If you are unable to determine the reason for the block on your own, file a ticket
UNLOCKING	The cluster is being unlocked
DELETING	The cluster is being deleted
DELETED	The cluster is deleted
MAINTENANCE	Cluster maintenance is in progress
ERROR	An error occurred, file a ticket

Node group statuses

CREATING	The node group is being created
ACTIVE	The node group is active, no operations are being performed on it
UPDATING	The node group is being updated
RESIZING	The node group is being scaled. During this operation, the same status is assigned to the cluster and nodes of the scaled group
DELETING	The node group is being deleted
DELETED	The node group is deleted
ERROR	An error occurred, file a ticket

View node statuses in node groups

1. In the Control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Databases.

2. Go to the Active tab.

3. Open the cluster page → Connection tab.

4. In the Connection addresses block, in the node row, check the Status column.

   CREATING	The node is being created
   ACTIVE	The node is active, no operations are being performed on it
   UPDATING	The node is being updated
   RESIZING	The node is being resized. This status appears when the node group containing the node is being resized
   DELETING	The node is being deleted
   DELETED	The node is deleted
   DISK FULL	The node disk is full, the node is read-only. For the node to support read and write operations, free up disk space or scale the node group and select a configuration with a larger disk size than the previous configuration
   DOWN	The node is unavailable, file a ticket
   ERROR	An error occurred, file a ticket

View operation history

1. In the Control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Databases.
2. Go to the Active tab.
3. Open the cluster page → Operation history tab.
4. View operations.

View cluster node metrics

1. In the Control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Databases.
2. Go to the Active tab.
3. Open the cluster page → Monitoring tab.
4. Select a node group.
5. If there are multiple nodes in the group, select the node whose metrics you want to view.
6. View available cluster node metrics.

Cluster node metrics in the control panel

Memory	Used memory excluding OS cache and buffers in percent or gigabytes
vCPU	Load percentage of cluster node cores
CPU iowait	Percentage of time the CPU spent waiting for I/O
Disk	Used disk space as a percentage or in gigabytes. Takes into account the portion of disk space reserved for system needs and unavailable for databases. Learn more about disk space reservation in the Using disk space in the OpenSearch cluster instructions
Load Average	Average system load over a period of time. Shows the number of processes handled by the cluster cores. The metric is presented as three values: for one minute, five minutes, and 15 minutes. These values should not exceed the number of cores on the node
OOM	The number of processes that terminated with an Out of Memory error due to lack of RAM
Disk load	Data read and write speed in KB/s or the number of read and write operations per second
Network load	Number of bits or packets sent and received across the network interface