Get auto-follow patterns Added in 6.5.0

GET /_ccr/auto_follow/{name}
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Get cross-cluster replication auto-follow patterns.

External documentation

Path parameters

  • name string Required

    The auto-follow pattern collection that you want to retrieve. If you do not specify a name, the API returns information for all collections.

Query parameters

  • master_timeout string

    The period to wait for a connection to the master node. If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. It can also be set to -1 to indicate that the request should never timeout.

    Values are -1 or 0.

Responses

  • 200 application/json
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    • patterns array[object] Required
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      • name string Required
      • pattern object Required
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        • active boolean Required
        • remote_cluster string Required

          The remote cluster containing the leader indices to match against.

        • follow_index_pattern string
        • leader_index_patterns array[string] Required
        • leader_index_exclusion_patterns array[string] Required
        • max_outstanding_read_requests number Required

          The maximum number of outstanding reads requests from the remote cluster.
GET /_ccr/auto_follow/{name} 
GET /_ccr/auto_follow/my_auto_follow_pattern

curl \
 --request GET 'http://api.example.com/_ccr/auto_follow/{name}' \
 --header "Authorization: $API_KEY"
Response examples (200)
A successful response from `GET /_ccr/auto_follow/my_auto_follow_pattern`, which gets auto-follow patterns. 
{
  "patterns": [
    {
      "name": "my_auto_follow_pattern",
      "pattern": {
        "active": true,
        "remote_cluster" : "remote_cluster",
        "leader_index_patterns" :
        [
          "leader_index*"
        ],
        "leader_index_exclusion_patterns":
        [
          "leader_index_001"
        ],
        "follow_index_pattern" : "{{leader_index}}-follower"
      }
    }
  ]
}