Update connector error API

Update connector error API

This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

New API reference

For the most up-to-date API details, refer to Connector APIs.

Updates the error field of a connector.

To get started with Connector APIs, check out our tutorial.

Request

PUT _connector/<connector_id>/_error

Prerequisites

  • To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the Elastic connector service. on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for Elastic managed connectors.
  • The connector_id parameter should reference an existing connector.

Description

Sets the error field for the specified connector. If the error provided in the request body is non-null, the connector’s status is updated to error. Otherwise, if the error is reset to null, the connector status is updated to connected.

Path parameters

<connector_id>

(Required, string)

Request body

error

(Required, string) A messaged related to the last error encountered by the connector.

Response codes

200

Connector error field was successfully updated.

400

The connector_id was not provided or the request payload was malformed.

404 (Missing resources)

No connector matching connector_id could be found.

Examples

The following example updates the error field for the connector with ID my-connector:

  1. resp = client.connector.update_error(
  2. connector_id="my-connector",
  3. error="Houston, we have a problem!",
  4. )
  5. print(resp)
  1. response = client.connector.update_error(
  2. connector_id: 'my-connector',
  3. body: {
  4. error: 'Houston, we have a problem!'
  5. }
  6. )
  7. puts response
  1. const response = await client.connector.updateError({
  2. connector_id: "my-connector",
  3. error: "Houston, we have a problem!",
  4. });
  5. console.log(response);
  1. PUT _connector/my-connector/_error
  2. {
  3. "error": "Houston, we have a problem!"
  4. }
  1. {
  2. "result": "updated"
  3. }