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Expand Up @@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ $ check_elasticsearch health -U exampleuser -P examplepassword
Checks the total hits/counts of an Elasticsearch query (using a query_string query type: [Link to Docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-query-string-query)).

The plugin can count the number of documents based on a provided query string
and then compare it to the given thresholds
and then compare it to the given thresholds.

The warning and critical flags support thresholds in the common Nagios format (e.g. `~:10`).

With the `--msgkey` flag extracts a value from a given field and shows in in the output.
This is intended to show message/body/log field values in the plugin output.
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