gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import json
import urllib2

url = 'http://192.168.3.14:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true'
results = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

stats = json.loads(results)

print "metric cluster_status string {0}".format(stats['status'])
print "metric number_of_nodes int {0}".format(stats['number_of_nodes'])
print "metric active_shards int {0}".format(stats['active_shards'])
print "metric relocating_shards int {0}".format(stats['relocating_shards'])
print "metric initializing_shards int {0}".format(stats['initializing_shards'])
print "metric unassigned_shards int {0}".format(stats['unassigned_shards'])