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CAT recovery

Introduced 1.0

The CAT recovery operation lists all completed and ongoing index and shard recoveries.

Example

GET _cat/recovery?v

To see only the recoveries of a specific index, add the index name after your query.

GET _cat/recovery/<index>?v

If you want to get information for more than one index, separate the indexes with commas:

GET _cat/recovery/index1,index2,index3

Path and HTTP methods

GET _cat/recovery

URL parameters

All CAT recovery URL parameters are optional.

In addition to the common URL parameters, you can specify the following parameters:

Parameter Type Description
active_only Boolean Whether to only include ongoing shard recoveries. Default is false.
bytes Byte size Specify the units for byte size. For example, 7kb or 6gb. For more information, see Supported units.
detailed Boolean Whether to include detailed information about shard recoveries. Default is false.
time Time Specify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units.

Response

index | shard | time | type | stage | source_host | source_node | target_host | target_node | repository | snapshot | files | files_recovered | files_percent | files_total | bytes | bytes_recovered | bytes_percent | bytes_total | translog_ops | translog_ops_recovered | translog_ops_percent
movies | 0 | 117ms | empty_store | done | n/a | n/a | 172.18.0.4 | odfe-node1 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0%
movies | 0 | 382ms | peer | done | 172.18.0.4 | odfe-node1 | 172.18.0.3 | odfe-node2 | n/a | n/a | 1 | 1 |  100.0% | 1 | 208 | 208 | 100.0% | 208 | 1 | 1 | 100.0%