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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) Period to wait for the master node. If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s. Can also be set to -1 to indicate that the request should never timeout.

Examples

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response = client.watcher.stop
puts response
POST _watcher/_stop
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Watcher returns the following response if the request is successful:

{
   "acknowledged": true
}
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