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Create connector API

This functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Creates an Elastic connector. Connectors are Elasticsearch integrations that bring content from third-party data sources, which can be deployed on Elastic Cloud or hosted on your own infrastructure:

Native connectors are a managed service on Elastic Cloud
Connector clients are self-managed on your infrastructure

Find a list of all supported service types in the connectors documentation.

To get started with Connector APIs, check out the tutorial.

resp = client.connector.put(
    connector_id="my-connector",
    index_name="search-google-drive",
    name="My Connector",
    service_type="google_drive",
)
print(resp)

response = client.connector.put(
  connector_id: 'my-connector',
  body: {
    index_name: 'search-google-drive',
    name: 'My Connector',
    service_type: 'google_drive'
  }
)
puts response

const response = await client.connector.put({
  connector_id: "my-connector",
  index_name: "search-google-drive",
  name: "My Connector",
  service_type: "google_drive",
});
console.log(response);

PUT _connector/my-connector
{
  "index_name": "search-google-drive",
  "name": "My Connector",
  "service_type": "google_drive"
}

Request

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POST _connector
PUT _connector/<connector_id>

Prerequisites

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To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the Elastic connector service on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for native connectors.
The service_type parameter should reference a supported third-party service. See the available service types for native and self-managed connectors. This can also reference the service type of your custom connector.

Description

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Creates a connector document in the internal index and initializes its configuration, filtering, and scheduling with default values. These values can be updated later as needed.

Path parameters

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<connector_id>: (Optional, string) Unique identifier of a connector.

Request body

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description: (Optional, string) The description of the connector.
index_name: (Optional, string) The target index to sync data. If the index doesn’t exist, it will be created upon the first sync.
name: (Optional, string) The name of the connector. Setting the connector name is recommended when managing connectors in Kibana.
is_native: (Optional, boolean) Indicates if it’s a native connector. Defaults to false.
language: (Optional, string) Language analyzer for the data. Limited to supported languages.
service_type: (Optional, string) Connector service type. Can reference Elastic-supported third-party services or a custom connector type. See the available service types for native and self-managed connectors.

Response body

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id: (string) The ID associated with the connector document. Returned when using a POST request.
result: (string) The result of the indexing operation, created or updated. Returned when using a PUT request.

Response codes

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200: Indicates that an existing connector was updated successfully.
201: Indicates that the connector was created successfully.
400: Indicates that the request was malformed.

Examples

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const response = await client.connector.put({
  connector_id: "my-connector",
  index_name: "search-google-drive",
  name: "My Connector",
  description: "My Connector to sync data to Elastic index from Google Drive",
  service_type: "google_drive",
  language: "en",
});
console.log(response);

PUT _connector/my-connector
{
  "index_name": "search-google-drive",
  "name": "My Connector",
  "description": "My Connector to sync data to Elastic index from Google Drive",
  "service_type": "google_drive",
  "language": "en"
}

The API returns the following result:

{
  "result": "created",
  "id": "my-connector"
}

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