[[upgrade-assistant-api-status]]
=== Upgrade readiness status API
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<titleabbrev>Upgrade readiness status</titleabbrev>
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experimental["The underlying Upgrade Assistant concepts are stable, but the APIs for managing Upgrade Assistant are experimental."]

Check the status of your cluster.

[[upgrade-assistant-api-status-request]]
==== Request

`GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/upgrade_assistant/status`

[[upgrade-assistant-api-status-response-codes]]
==== Response codes

`200`::
  Indicates a successful call.

[[upgrade-assistant-api-status-example]]
==== Example

The API returns the following:

[source,sh]
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{
  "readyForUpgrade": false,
  "cluster": [
    {
      "message": "Cluster deprecated issue",
      "details":"You have 2 system indices that must be migrated and 5 Elasticsearch deprecation issues and 0 Kibana deprecation issues that must be resolved before upgrading."
    }
  ]
}
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