Pause a follower Generally available; Added in 6.5.0

POST /{index}/_ccr/pause_follow
Api key auth Basic auth Bearer auth

Pause a cross-cluster replication follower index. The follower index will not fetch any additional operations from the leader index. You can resume following with the resume follower API. You can pause and resume a follower index to change the configuration of the following task.

Required authorization

  • Cluster privileges: manage_ccr

Path parameters

  • index string Required

    The name of the follower index.

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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    • acknowledged boolean Required

      For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.
POST /{index}/_ccr/pause_follow 
POST /follower_index/_ccr/pause_follow 
resp = client.ccr.pause_follow( index="follower_index", )
const response = await client.ccr.pauseFollow({ index: "follower_index", });
response = client.ccr.pause_follow( index: "follower_index" )
$resp = $client->ccr()->pauseFollow([ "index" => "follower_index", ]);
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/follower_index/_ccr/pause_follow"
Response examples (200)
A successful response from `POST /follower_index/_ccr/pause_follow`, which pauses a follower index. 
{ "acknowledged" : true }