CAT recovery
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%