Elastic

Elastic Watcher API

You can use Watcher to watch for changes or anomalies in your data and perform the necessary actions in response.

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Operations 24

PUT /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_ack Acknowledge a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_ack Acknowledge a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_ack/{action_id} Acknowledge a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_ack/{action_id} Acknowledge a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_activate Activate a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_activate Activate a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_deactivate Deactivate a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{watch_id}/_deactivate Deactivate a watch #
GET /_watcher/watch/{id} Get a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/{id} Create or update a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{id} Create or update a watch #
DELETE /_watcher/watch/{id} Delete a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/{id}/_execute Run a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/{id}/_execute Run a watch #
PUT /_watcher/watch/_execute Run a watch #
POST /_watcher/watch/_execute Run a watch #
GET /_watcher/settings Get Watcher index settings #
PUT /_watcher/settings Update Watcher index settings #
GET /_watcher/_query/watches Query watches #
POST /_watcher/_query/watches Query watches #
POST /_watcher/_start Start the watch service #
GET /_watcher/stats Get Watcher statistics #
GET /_watcher/stats/{metric} Get Watcher statistics #
POST /_watcher/_stop Stop the watch service #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch
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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana
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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/cloud

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic/refs/heads/main/openapi/elastic-watcher-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic/refs/heads/main/json-schema/elastic-saved-object-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

elastic-watcher-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elasticsearch Watcher API
  description: 'Elasticsearch provides REST APIs that are used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features.

    ## Documentation source and versions

    This documentation is derived from the main branch of the elasticsearch-specification repository. It is provided under license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

    This documentation contains work-in-progress information for future Elastic Stack releases.'
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/blob/main/LICENSE
  version: ''
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:


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