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Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Ingest API

The Ingest API from Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) — 1 operation(s) for ingest.

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Ingest API is one of 8 APIs that Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Ingest. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: http://localhost:9200, https://{host}:{port}.

1 operations 1 paths 0 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://localhost:9200
Authentication
HTTP Basic, API Key
Contact
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Ingest 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). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKeyAuth — ApiKey

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Ingest 1
POST
/_ingest/pipeline/{id}/_simulate
Simulate ingest pipeline
simulateIngestPipeline 1 param body → 200

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

elk-stack-ingest-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Document API
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