# Administer and maintain a swarm of Docker Engines — Monitor swarm health

> You can monitor the health of manager nodes by querying the docker nodes API in JSON format through the /nodes HTTP endpoint.

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You can monitor the health of manager nodes by querying the docker nodes API in JSON format through the /nodes HTTP endpoint. Refer to the nodes API documentation for more information.

From the command line, run docker node inspect to query the nodes. For instance, to query the reachability of the node as a manager

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker node inspect manager1 --format "{{ .ManagerStatus.Reachability }}"
reachable
```

To query the status of the node as a worker that accept tasks

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker node inspect manager1 --format "{{ .Status.State }}"
ready
```

From those commands, we can see that manager1 is both at the status reachable as a manager and ready as a worker.

An unreachable health status means that this particular manager node is unreachable from other manager nodes. In this case you need to take action to restore the unreachable manager

Restart the daemon and see if the manager comes back as reachable. Reboot the machine. If neither restarting nor rebooting works, you should add another manager node or promote a worker to be a manager node. You also need to cleanly remove the failed node entry from the manager set with docker node demote and docker node rm .

Alternatively you can also get an overview of the swarm health from a manager node with docker node ls

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker node ls
ID                           HOSTNAME  MEMBERSHIP  STATUS  AVAILABILITY  MANAGER STATUS
1mhtdwhvsgr3c26xxbnzdc3yp    node05    Accepted    Ready   Active
516pacagkqp2xc3fk9t1dhjor    node02    Accepted    Ready   Active        Reachable
9ifojw8of78kkusuc4a6c23fx *  node01    Accepted    Ready   Active        Leader
ax11wdpwrrb6db3mfjydscgk7    node04    Accepted    Ready   Active
bb1nrq2cswhtbg4mrsqnlx1ck    node03    Accepted    Ready   Active        Reachable
di9wxgz8dtuh9d2hn089ecqkf    node06    Accepted    Ready   Active
```

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