Query watches APIedit

Retrieves all registered watches.

Requestedit

GET /_watcher/_query/watches

Prerequisitesedit

  • You must have manage_watcher or monitor_watcher cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Retrieves all watches in a paginated manner and optionally filtering watches by a query.

This API supports the following fields:

Name Required Default Description

from

no

0

The offset from the first result to fetch. Needs to be non-negative.

size

no

10

The number of hits to return. Needs to be non-negative.

query

no

null

Optional, query filter watches to be returned.

sort

no

null

Optional sort definition.

search_after

no

null

Optional search After to do pagination using last hit’s sort values.

Note that only the _id and metadata.* fields are queryable or sortable.

This api returns the following top level fields:

count
The total number of watches found.
watches
A list of watches based on the from, size or search_after request body parameters.

Examplesedit

The following example list all stored watches:

GET /_watcher/_query/watches

Response:

{
    "count": 1,
    "watches": [
        {
            "_id": "my_watch",
            "watch": {
                "trigger": {
                    "schedule": {
                        "hourly": {
                            "minute": [
                                0,
                                5
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                },
                "input": {
                    "simple": {
                        "payload": {
                            "send": "yes"
                        }
                    }
                },
                "condition": {
                    "always": {}
                },
                "actions": {
                    "test_index": {
                        "index": {
                            "index": "test"
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "status": {
                "state": {
                    "active": true,
                    "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:21:08.630Z"
                },
                "actions": {
                    "test_index": {
                        "ack": {
                            "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:21:08.630Z",
                            "state": "awaits_successful_execution"
                        }
                    }
                },
                "version": -1
            },
            "_seq_no": 0,
            "_primary_term": 1
        }
    ]
}