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cat snapshots API

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cat snapshots API

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Returns information about the snapshots stored in one or more repositories. A snapshot is a backup of an index or running Elasticsearch cluster.

Request

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GET /_cat/snapshots/<repository>

Path parameters

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<repository>

(Required, string) Snapshot repository used to limit the request.

If the repository fails during the request, Elasticsearch returns an error.

Query parameters

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format
(Optional, string) Short version of the HTTP accept header. Valid values include JSON, YAML, etc.
h

(Optional, string) Comma-separated list of column names to display.

If you do not specify which columns to include, the API returns the default columns in the order listed below. If you explicitly specify one or more columns, it only returns the specified columns.

Valid columns are:

id, snapshot
(Default) ID of the snapshot, such as snap1.
repository, re, repo
(Default) Name of the repository, such as repo1.
status, s

(Default) State of the snapshot process. Returned values are:

  • FAILED: The snapshot process failed.
  • INCOMPATIBLE: The snapshot process is incompatible with the current cluster version.
  • IN_PROGRESS: The snapshot process started but has not completed.
  • PARTIAL: The snapshot process completed with a partial success.
  • SUCCESS: The snapshot process completed with a full success.
start_epoch, ste, startEpoch
(Default) Unix epoch time at which the snapshot process started.
start_time, sti, startTime
(Default) HH:MM:SS time at which the snapshot process started.
end_epoch, ete, endEpoch
(Default) Unix epoch time at which the snapshot process ended.
end_time, eti, endTime
(Default) HH:MM:SS time at which the snapshot process ended.
duration, dur
(Default) Time it took the snapshot process to complete in time units.
indices, i
(Default) Number of indices in the snapshot.
successful_shards, ss
(Default) Number of successful shards in the snapshot.
failed_shards, fs
(Default) Number of failed shards in the snapshot.
total_shards, ts
(Default) Total number of shards in the snapshot.
reason, `r
Reason for any snapshot failures.
help
(Optional, boolean) If true, the response includes help information. Defaults to false.
ignore_unavailable
(Optional, boolean) If true, the response does not include information from unavailable snapshots. Defaults to false.
master_timeout
(Optional, time units) Specifies the period of time to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.
s
(Optional, string) Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases used to sort the response.
time
(Optional, time units) Unit used to display time values.
v
(Optional, boolean) If true, the response includes column headings. Defaults to false.

Examples

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GET /_cat/snapshots/repo1?v&s=id
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The API returns the following response:

id     status start_epoch start_time end_epoch  end_time duration indices successful_shards failed_shards total_shards
snap1  FAILED 1445616705  18:11:45   1445616978 18:16:18     4.6m       1                 4             1            5
snap2 SUCCESS 1445634298  23:04:58   1445634672 23:11:12     6.2m       2                10             0           10
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