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title: Sniffer in the Elasticsearch Java REST client
description: Minimal library that allows to automatically discover nodes from a running Elasticsearch cluster and set them to an existing RestClient instance. It retrieves...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/clients/java/transport/rest-client/sniffer
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Client
  - Elasticsearch Java Client
---

# Sniffer in the Elasticsearch Java REST client
<note>
  This is the legacy RestClient. Please migrate to [Rest5Client](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/clients/java/transport/rest5-client), a drop-in replacement with an up-to-date http library.
</note>

Minimal library that allows to automatically discover nodes from a running Elasticsearch cluster and set them to an existing `RestClient` instance. It retrieves by default the nodes that belong to the cluster using the Nodes Info api and uses jackson to parse the obtained json response.