Changing Inputs

To load static data into the watch payload for testing purposes, you can use the simple input. For example, the following input stores three fields in the payload:

"input" : {
  "simple" : {
    "color"  : "red",
    "status" : "error",
    "count"  : 3
  }
}

To load search results into the watch payload, you use the search input. In addition to simple match queries like the one shown in the Getting Started guide, you can use the full Elasticsearch query language.

A simple input contains a request object that specifies the indices you want to search, the search type, and the search request body. The body field of a search input is the same as the body of an Elasticsearch _search request.

To query a webserver and load the response into the watch payload, you use the http input. In addition to calling Elasticsearch APIs as shown in the Getting Started guide, you can submit requests to any webserver that returns a response in JSON.