Get pipelines Generally available; Added in 5.0.0

GET /_ingest/pipeline/{id}
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All methods and paths for this operation:

GET /_ingest/pipeline

GET /_ingest/pipeline/{id}

Get information about one or more ingest pipelines. This API returns a local reference of the pipeline.

External documentation

Path parameters

  • id string Required

    Comma-separated list of pipeline IDs to retrieve. Wildcard (*) expressions are supported. To get all ingest pipelines, omit this parameter or use *.

Query parameters

  • master_timeout string

    Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

    External documentation
  • summary boolean

    Return pipelines without their definitions (default: false)

Responses

  • 200 application/json
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    • * object Additional properties
      Hide * attributes Show * attributes object
      • description string

        Description of the ingest pipeline.

      • on_failure array[object]

        Processors to run immediately after a processor failure.

        Hide on_failure attributes Show on_failure attributes object
        • append object
        • attachment object
        • bytes object
        • circle object
        • community_id object
        • convert object
        • csv object
        • date object
        • date_index_name object
        • dissect object
        • dot_expander object
        • drop object
        • enrich object
        • fail object
        • fingerprint object
        • foreach object
        • ip_location object
        • geo_grid object
        • geoip object
        • grok object
        • gsub object
        • html_strip object
        • inference object
        • join object
        • json object
        • kv object
        • lowercase object
        • network_direction object
        • pipeline object
        • redact object
        • registered_domain object
        • remove object
        • rename object
        • reroute object
        • script object
        • set object
        • set_security_user object
        • sort object
        • split object
        • terminate object
        • trim object
        • uppercase object
        • urldecode object
        • uri_parts object
        • user_agent object
      • processors array[object]

        Processors used to perform transformations on documents before indexing. Processors run sequentially in the order specified.

        Hide processors attributes Show processors attributes object
        • append object
        • attachment object
        • bytes object
        • circle object
        • community_id object
        • convert object
        • csv object
        • date object
        • date_index_name object
        • dissect object
        • dot_expander object
        • drop object
        • enrich object
        • fail object
        • fingerprint object
        • foreach object
        • ip_location object
        • geo_grid object
        • geoip object
        • grok object
        • gsub object
        • html_strip object
        • inference object
        • join object
        • json object
        • kv object
        • lowercase object
        • network_direction object
        • pipeline object
        • redact object
        • registered_domain object
        • remove object
        • rename object
        • reroute object
        • script object
        • set object
        • set_security_user object
        • sort object
        • split object
        • terminate object
        • trim object
        • uppercase object
        • urldecode object
        • uri_parts object
        • user_agent object
      • version number

        Version number used by external systems to track ingest pipelines.

      • deprecated boolean

        Marks this ingest pipeline as deprecated. When a deprecated ingest pipeline is referenced as the default or final pipeline when creating or updating a non-deprecated index template, Elasticsearch will emit a deprecation warning.

        Default value is false.

      • _meta object

        Arbitrary metadata about the ingest pipeline. This map is not automatically generated by Elasticsearch.

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        • * object Additional properties

      • created_date string | number

        Date and time when the pipeline was created. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

        One of:
        string-1 string UnitMillis number

        Date and time when the pipeline was created. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

        Date and time when the pipeline was created. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

      • created_date_millis number

        Time unit for milliseconds

      • modified_date string | number

        Date and time when the pipeline was last modified. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

        One of:
        string-1 string UnitMillis number

        Date and time when the pipeline was last modified. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

        Date and time when the pipeline was last modified. Only returned if the human query parameter is true.

      • modified_date_millis number

        Time unit for milliseconds

      • field_access_pattern string

        Controls how processors in this pipeline should read and write data on a document's source.

        Values are classic or flexible.
GET /_ingest/pipeline/{id} 
GET /_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id 
resp = client.ingest.get_pipeline( id="my-pipeline-id", )
const response = await client.ingest.getPipeline({ id: "my-pipeline-id", });
response = client.ingest.get_pipeline( id: "my-pipeline-id" )
$resp = $client->ingest()->getPipeline([ "id" => "my-pipeline-id", ]);
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id"
Response examples (200)
A successful response for retrieving information about an ingest pipeline. 
{ "my-pipeline-id" : { "description" : "describe pipeline", "version" : 123, "processors" : [ { "set" : { "field" : "foo", "value" : "bar" } } ], "created_date" : "2024-01-01T12:00:00.000Z", "created_date_millis" : 1704110400000, "modified_date" : "2025-01-01T12:00:00.000Z", "modified_date_millis" : 1735732800000 } }