diff --git a/services/alarm-logger/README.md b/services/alarm-logger/README.md
index cd73a9618e..dccd801092 100644
--- a/services/alarm-logger/README.md
+++ b/services/alarm-logger/README.md
@@ -53,24 +53,38 @@ including those used to create daily, weekly or monthly indices.
 The alarm logger can be configured via command line switches when running the jar, see option `-help` for details, 
 or via properties documented in [here](https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/blob/master/services/alarm-logger/src/main/resources/alarm_logger.properties)
 
+#### Check Service Status
 
+```
+http://localhost:8080
+```
 
+Will provide information regarding the version of the service along with information about the connection status with the elastic backend.
 
-### Query the Data
-
-For more elaborate queries, use Kibana or other elasticsearch clients.
-For a first test, this should list one or more `*alarm*` indices:
+e.g.
 
 ```
-curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v'
+{
+    "name": "Alarm logging Service",
+    "version": "4.7.4-SNAPSHOT",
+    "elastic": {
+        "status": "Connected",
+        "clusterName": "elasticsearch",
+        "clusterUuid": "hwn6nGDwTKSm8vzVTqR9Sw",
+        "version": "co.elastic.clients.elasticsearch._types.ElasticsearchVersionInfo@51e5581d"
+    }
+}
 ```
 
-This dumps records from one specific index:
+### Query the Data
+
+Alarm logs can be retrieved using the alarm logging services query REST API's
 
 ```
-curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/accelerator_alarms_state_2019-02-01/_search?format=json&pretty'
+curl -X GET 'localhost:8080/search/alarm?pv=*'
 ```
 
+
 ## Data Management
 
 The  most common aspects for effectively configuring the alarm logger are: 
@@ -114,4 +128,4 @@ A full list of checks is documented [here](https://maven.apache.org/maven-releas
 **Perform the release**  
 `mvn -Darguments="-Dskip-executable-jar" -Pdocs,releases release:perform`  
 Checkout the release tag, build, sign and push the build binaries to sonatype. The `docs` profile is needed in order
-to create required javadocs jars.
\ No newline at end of file
+to create required javadocs jars.