Getting the Status of a Cluster Node

[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!

[Rilwan Ahmed · Accepted solution]

Hi @Richard Briggs ,

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

[Richard Briggs]

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

[Richard Briggs]

It's  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

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

[Richard Briggs · Accepted solution]

It's to me that there is not an API, SNMP, REST, JQL that simply tells the individual status of a node in a confluence cluster.  

[Laurie Sciutti]

Hey @Richard Briggs ~ 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

[Richard Briggs]

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. ?