diff --git a/doc/source/logstash.rst b/doc/source/logstash.rst
index 1032ed32f8..3cfee4c297 100644
--- a/doc/source/logstash.rst
+++ b/doc/source/logstash.rst
@@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ redundancy to distribute disk utilization and provide high availability.
 Each replica is broken into multiple shards providing inceased indexing
 and search throughput as each shard is essentially a valid mini index.
 
+To check on the cluster health, run this command on any es.* node::
+
+  curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true'
+
 Kibana
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