Stop watch service API

Stop watch service API

Stops the Watcher service if it is running.

Request

POST _watcher/_stop

Prerequisites

  • You must have manage_watcher cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Query parameters

master_timeout

(Optional, time units) Specifies the period of time 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. Defaults to 30s.

Examples

  1. POST _watcher/_stop

Watcher returns the following response if the request is successful:

  1. {
  2.    "acknowledged": true
  3. }