Get data streams | Elasticsearch API documentation

Get data streams Generally available; Added in 7.9.0

GET /_data_stream

Api key auth Basic auth Bearer auth

Get information about one or more data streams.

Required authorization

Index privileges: view_index_metadata

Query parameters

expand_wildcards string | array[string]

Type of data stream that wildcard patterns can match. Supports comma-separated values, such as open,hidden.

Values are all, open, closed, hidden, or none.
include_defaults boolean

If true, returns all relevant default configurations for the index template.
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.

Values are -1 or 0.
verbose boolean

Whether the maximum timestamp for each data stream should be calculated and returned.

Responses

200 application/json
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- data_streams array[object] Required
  
  Hide data_streams attributes Show data_streams attributes object
  
  _meta object
  
  Hide _meta attribute Show _meta attribute object
  
  * object Additional properties
  
  allow_custom_routing boolean
  
  If true, the data stream allows custom routing on write request.
  
  failure_store object
  
  Hide failure_store attributes Show failure_store attributes object
  
  enabled boolean Required
  
  indices array[object] Required
  
  Hide indices attributes Show indices attributes object
  
  index_name string Required
  
  index_uuid string Required
  
  ilm_policy string
  
  managed_by string
  
  Values are Index Lifecycle Management, Data stream lifecycle, or Unmanaged.
  
  prefer_ilm boolean
  
  Indicates if ILM should take precedence over DSL in case both are configured to manage this index.
  
  index_mode string
  
  Values are standard, time_series, logsdb, or lookup.
  
  rollover_on_write boolean Required
  
  generation number Required
  
  Current generation for the data stream. This number acts as a cumulative count of the stream’s rollovers, starting at 1.
  
  hidden boolean Required
  
  If true, the data stream is hidden.
  
  ilm_policy string
  
  next_generation_managed_by string Required
  
  Values are Index Lifecycle Management, Data stream lifecycle, or Unmanaged.
  
  prefer_ilm boolean Required
  
  Indicates if ILM should take precedence over DSL in case both are configured to managed this data stream.
  
  indices array[object] Required
  
  Array of objects containing information about the data stream’s backing indices. The last item in this array contains information about the stream’s current write index.
  
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  index_name string Required
  
  index_uuid string Required
  
  ilm_policy string
  
  managed_by string
  
  Values are Index Lifecycle Management, Data stream lifecycle, or Unmanaged.
  
  prefer_ilm boolean
  
  Indicates if ILM should take precedence over DSL in case both are configured to manage this index.
  
  index_mode string
  
  Values are standard, time_series, logsdb, or lookup.
  
  lifecycle object
  
  Data stream lifecycle with rollover can be used to display the configuration including the default rollover conditions, if asked.
  
  Hide lifecycle attributes Show lifecycle attributes object
  
  data_retention string
  
  A duration. Units can be nanos, micros, ms (milliseconds), s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours) and d (days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
  
  downsampling object
  
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  rounds array[object] Required
  
  The list of downsampling rounds to execute as part of this downsampling configuration
  
  enabled boolean
  
  If defined, it turns data stream lifecycle on/off (true/false) for this data stream. A data stream lifecycle that's disabled (enabled: false) will have no effect on the data stream.
  
  rollover object
  
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  min_age string
  
  A duration. Units can be nanos, micros, ms (milliseconds), s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours) and d (days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
  
  max_age string
  
  min_docs number
  
  max_docs number
  
  min_size
  
  max_size
  
  min_primary_shard_size
  
  max_primary_shard_size
  
  min_primary_shard_docs number
  
  max_primary_shard_docs number
  
  name string Required
  
  replicated boolean
  
  If true, the data stream is created and managed by cross-cluster replication and the local cluster can not write into this data stream or change its mappings.
  
  rollover_on_write boolean Required
  
  If true, the next write to this data stream will trigger a rollover first and the document will be indexed in the new backing index. If the rollover fails the indexing request will fail too.
  
  settings object Required
  Index settings
  
  status string Required
  
  Values are green, GREEN, yellow, YELLOW, red, or RED.
  
  system boolean Generally available; Added in 7.10.0
  
  If true, the data stream is created and managed by an Elastic stack component and cannot be modified through normal user interaction.
  
  template string Required
  
  timestamp_field object Required
  
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  name string Required
  
  Path to field or array of paths. Some API's support wildcards in the path to select multiple fields.
  
  index_mode string
  
  Values are standard, time_series, logsdb, or lookup.

GET /_data_stream

GET _data_stream/my-data-stream

resp = client.indices.get_data_stream(
    name="my-data-stream",
)

const response = await client.indices.getDataStream({
  name: "my-data-stream",
});

response = client.indices.get_data_stream(
  name: "my-data-stream"
)

$resp = $client->indices()->getDataStream([
    "name" => "my-data-stream",
]);

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_data_stream/my-data-stream"

Response examples (200)

A successful response for retrieving information about a data stream.

{
  "data_streams": [
    {
      "name": "my-data-stream",
      "timestamp_field": {
        "name": "@timestamp"
      },
      "indices": [
        {
          "index_name": ".ds-my-data-stream-2099.03.07-000001",
          "index_uuid": "xCEhwsp8Tey0-FLNFYVwSg",
          "prefer_ilm": true,
          "ilm_policy": "my-lifecycle-policy",
          "managed_by": "Index Lifecycle Management"
        },
        {
          "index_name": ".ds-my-data-stream-2099.03.08-000002",
          "index_uuid": "PA_JquKGSiKcAKBA8DJ5gw",
          "prefer_ilm": true,
          "ilm_policy": "my-lifecycle-policy",
          "managed_by": "Index Lifecycle Management"
        }
      ],
      "generation": 2,
      "_meta": {
        "my-meta-field": "foo"
      },
      "status": "GREEN",
      "next_generation_managed_by": "Index Lifecycle Management",
      "prefer_ilm": true,
      "template": "my-index-template",
      "ilm_policy": "my-lifecycle-policy",
      "hidden": false,
      "system": false,
      "allow_custom_routing": false,
      "replicated": false,
      "rollover_on_write": false
    },
    {
      "name": "my-data-stream-two",
      "timestamp_field": {
        "name": "@timestamp"
      },
      "indices": [
        {
          "index_name": ".ds-my-data-stream-two-2099.03.08-000001",
          "index_uuid": "3liBu2SYS5axasRt6fUIpA",
          "prefer_ilm": true,
          "ilm_policy": "my-lifecycle-policy",
          "managed_by": "Index Lifecycle Management"
        }
      ],
      "generation": 1,
      "_meta": {
        "my-meta-field": "foo"
      },
      "status": "YELLOW",
      "next_generation_managed_by": "Index Lifecycle Management",
      "prefer_ilm": true,
      "template": "my-index-template",
      "ilm_policy": "my-lifecycle-policy",
      "hidden": false,
      "system": false,
      "allow_custom_routing": false,
      "replicated": false,
      "rollover_on_write": false
    }
  ]
}