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Stop watch service API

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Stop watch service API

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Stops the Watcher service if it is running.

Request

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POST _watcher/_stop

Prerequisites

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

Query parameters

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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

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POST _watcher/_stop
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Watcher returns the following response if the request is successful:

{
   "acknowledged": true
}
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