Managing Read-Only Mode via API

The read-only mode flag for your deployment can be managed with the dedicated Read-Only Management API.

To make a call to one of the Read-Only Management APIs, you need to have a set of Elasticsearch credentials (username/password) for a user that has a manage Elasticsearch cluster privilege.

If you need to know if your deployment is in read-only mode, you can perform a GET call on this API endpoint. The response will have a single boolean field called enabled representing the state of the read-only flag for your deployment.

Here is how you can get the state of the read-only mode on your deployment using a curl command:

curl -X GET <ENTERPRISE_SEARCH_BASE_URL>/api/ent/v1/internal/read_only_mode \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -u username:password

An example response:

{"enabled":false}

When you want to change the read-only mode flag for your deployment, you need to perform a PUT call to the read-only mode API endpoint with the value for the flag you want to set. The response will have a single boolean field called enabled representing the state of the read-only flag for your deployment.

To set the new value for the read-only flag, you can use the following curl command:

curl -X PUT <ENTERPRISE_SEARCH_BASE_URL>/api/ent/v1/internal/read_only_mode \
     -d '{ "enabled": true }' \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -u username:password

An example response:

{"enabled":true}