Get Kibana's current status

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

GET /api/status

Returns Kibana's overall operational status and a per-service breakdown for Elasticsearch, Saved Objects, and registered plugins. The endpoint is intended for liveness and readiness checks (for example, by Kubernetes probes) and for operators monitoring a Kibana deployment. Unauthenticated callers receive a redacted response that exposes only the overall status level.

Authentication

Query parameters

Responses

Overall status is OK and Kibana should be functioning normally.

application/json

Any of:

Kibana's operational status as well as a detailed breakdown of plugin statuses indication of various loads (like event loop utilization and network traffic) at time of request.

metrics object required: Metric groups collected by Kibana.
name string required: Kibana instance name.
status object required
uuid string required: Unique, generated Kibana instance UUID. This UUID should persist even if the Kibana process restarts.
version object required

Kibana or some of its essential services are unavailable. Kibana may be degraded or unavailable.

application/json

Any of:

Kibana's operational status as well as a detailed breakdown of plugin statuses indication of various loads (like event loop utilization and network traffic) at time of request.

metrics object required: Metric groups collected by Kibana.
name string required: Kibana instance name.
status object required
uuid string required: Unique, generated Kibana instance UUID. This UUID should persist even if the Kibana process restarts.
version object required

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET kbn:/api/status

Generated from the API spec

curl Shell

curl -X GET "${KIBANA_URL}/api/status" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}"

Generated from the API spec

Response

A successful response when Kibana and its core services are operating normally.

{
  "metrics": {
    "collection_interval_in_millis": 5000,
    "elasticsearch_client": {
      "totalActiveSockets": 4,
      "totalIdleSockets": 2,
      "totalQueuedRequests": 0
    },
    "last_updated": "2026-04-30T12:00:05.000Z"
  },
  "name": "kibana",
  "status": {
    "core": {
      "elasticsearch": {
        "level": "available",
        "summary": "Elasticsearch is available"
      },
      "savedObjects": {
        "level": "available",
        "summary": "SavedObjects service has completed migrations and is available"
      }
    },
    "overall": {
      "level": "available",
      "summary": "All services are available"
    },
    "plugins": {}
  },
  "uuid": "5b2de169-2785-441b-ae8c-186a1936b17d",
  "version": {
    "build_date": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z",
    "build_flavor": "traditional",
    "build_hash": "ad8f0fa4d5022f56bbe2c4d51e9d0fcfa1ee67fc",
    "build_number": 100200,
    "build_snapshot": false,
    "number": "9.3.0"
  }
}

{
  "metrics": {
    "collection_interval_in_millis": 5000,
    "elasticsearch_client": {
      "totalActiveSockets": 0,
      "totalIdleSockets": 0,
      "totalQueuedRequests": 0
    },
    "last_updated": "2026-04-30T12:00:05.000Z"
  },
  "name": "kibana",
  "status": {
    "core": {
      "elasticsearch": {
        "level": "unavailable",
        "summary": "Unable to connect to Elasticsearch"
      },
      "savedObjects": {
        "level": "unavailable",
        "summary": "SavedObjects service depends on Elasticsearch"
      }
    },
    "overall": {
      "level": "unavailable",
      "summary": "Some services are unavailable"
    },
    "plugins": {}
  },
  "uuid": "5b2de169-2785-441b-ae8c-186a1936b17d",
  "version": {
    "build_date": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z",
    "build_flavor": "traditional",
    "build_hash": "ad8f0fa4d5022f56bbe2c4d51e9d0fcfa1ee67fc",
    "build_number": 100200,
    "build_snapshot": false,
    "number": "9.3.0"
  }
}