_nodes/http info missing lots of info

Question

The Elasticsearch client for golang uses info derived from the follow ES api call:  
  
GET /_node/http

Normally this call returns lot of information about the node including IP address but when making the call to the AWS service this information is missing. This causes the golang client to fail to be able to _discover_ any nodes. Here are two examples which highlight the problem:  
  
regular node i have running locally:  
curl "http://localhost:9200/_nodes/http?pretty"  
{  
  "_nodes" : {  
    "total" : 1,  
    "successful" : 1,  
    "failed" : 0  
  },  
  "cluster_name" : "docker-cluster",  
  "nodes" : {  
    "hnsnurlLTG2-XbBQFyYg9w" : {  
      "name" : "16c3f8d15864",  
      "transport_address" : "172.25.0.4:9300",  
      "host" : "172.25.0.4",  
      "ip" : "172.25.0.4",  
      "version" : "7.8.0",  
      "build_flavor" : "default",  
      "build_type" : "docker",  
      "build_hash" : "757314695644ea9a1dc2fecd26d1a43856725e65",  
      "roles" : \[  
        "data",  
        "ingest",  
        "master",  
        "ml",  
        "remote_cluster_client",  
        "transform"  
      ],  
      "attributes" : {  
        "ml.machine_memory" : "25225474048",  
        "xpack.installed" : "true",  
        "transform.node" : "true",  
        "ml.max_open_jobs" : "20"  
      },  
      "http" : {  
        "bound_address" : \[  
          "0.0.0.0:9200"  
        ],  
        "publish_address" : "172.25.0.4:9200",  
        "max_content_length_in_bytes" : 104857600  
      }  
    }  
  }  
}  
  
AWS equivalent:  
curl -XGET https://vpc-address....amazonaws.com/_nodes/http?pretty  
{  
  "_nodes" : {  
    "total" : 3,  
    "successful" : 3,  
    "failed" : 0  
  },  
  "cluster_name" : "XXX",  
  "nodes" : {  
    "8oxT_9maSMif5iXoQptpKA" : {  
      "name" : "d026e0070020663bdd93028c2c801292",  
      "version" : "7.7.0",  
      "build_flavor" : "oss",  
      "build_type" : "tar",  
      "build_hash" : "unknown",  
      "roles" : \[ "ingest", "master", "data", "remote_cluster_client" ]  
    },  
    "8joBdfy6Q-aULryA3aP00w" : {  
      "name" : "3992f18f3b80c28fbb6d5b5624c4bdfe",  
      "version" : "7.7.0",  
      "build_flavor" : "oss",  
      "build_type" : "tar",  
      "build_hash" : "unknown",  
      "roles" : \[ "ingest", "master", "data", "remote_cluster_client" ]  
    },  
    "2v572nbWQK6zrXmwGUiRmQ" : {  
      "name" : "41d42ffdc2fdaf9c7a425e29c6ba92d6",  
      "version" : "7.7.0",  
      "build_flavor" : "oss",  
      "build_type" : "tar",  
      "build_hash" : "unknown",  
      "roles" : \[ "ingest", "master", "data", "remote_cluster_client" ]  
    }  
  }  
}  
  
Obviously there are going to be some differences local Vs AWS with things like plugins but returning the actually http information seems pretty fundemental no?

Answer

The information is deliberately hidden because the IPs are private and as such would not be useful to any clients trying to retrieve them. Most cloud providers, including AWS, provide a loadbalancer instead. More information here:

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-sniffing-best-practices-what-when-why-how

_nodes/http info missing lots of info

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