Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Cat API
The cat API from Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) — 45 operation(s) for cat.
Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Cat API is one of 133 APIs that Elastic Stack publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Cat. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.
This API exposes 47 operations across 45 paths, and defines 108 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: http://localhost:9200, https://{host}:{port}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Cat API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyAuth).
apiKeyAuth— ApiKey
Paths & Operations 47
Across 45 paths, the API surfaces 47 operations — 45 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 108
The contract defines 108 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are cat.indices.IndicesRecord (142 properties), cat.nodes.NodesRecord (97 properties), cat.shards.ShardsRecord (77 properties), cat.ml_jobs.JobsRecord (60 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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