# How to know the status available in a node?

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**Created:** [28 October 2022 02:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703 "2022-10-28T02:38:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2022 02:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703/1 "2022-10-28T02:38:06Z")

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Hi all, how are you?

I've seen that several nodes has status messages the usually are diplayed under its respcective node but, I need to know what status has a node and what they means,

For example, the modbus-getter node has several status available but I read the wiki for those nodes and I couldn't find any reference to the available status and the help/description of the function nodes doesn't say anything about it at least the help that I read.

So, how can I know the status available in any node?

Thanks in advance for the help.

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**Author:** ![knoepsche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knoepsche/32/69450_2.png) [@knoepsche](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knoepsche)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2022 05:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703/2 "2022-10-28T05:21:19Z")

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If it's not dokumented by the nodes help then you might find it in the source code. There should be some status function.

[https://nodered.org/docs/creating-nodes/status](https://nodered.org/docs/creating-nodes/status)

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**Author:** ![bakman2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bakman2/32/6207_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2022 05:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703/3 "2022-10-28T05:36:38Z")

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Add a status node to the flow and connect a debug node to it, set it to show the complete msg object.  
[These](https://github.com/BiancoRoyal/node-red-contrib-modbus/blob/master/src/modbus-basics.js#L85) are the various statusses in the modbus source code.

Note that a status is free-format and defined by the developer of the node.

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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2022 11:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703/4 "2022-10-28T11:09:53Z")

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Thanks @knoepsche and @bakman2 for the help, now I see the possible status messages, I'll ask the developer what some of the messages means.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2022 11:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-know-the-status-available-in-a-node/69703/5 "2022-11-11T11:10:46Z")

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