I’m using the elasticsearch python api to communicate with my elasticsearch database. How can I make a specific GET request to get an overview of all the snapshots that have been created?
The Kibana command for this would be: GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all.
It seems the Elasticsearch.get() function is only suited to retrieve documents.
I would rather not use the Requests module.
The snapshot helper functions I found only have the option to get an overview of snapshots that are currently running.
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()
es.snapshot.get_repository('my_backup') # configuration information
es.snapshot.status('my_backup') # currently running snapshots
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Answer
I finally realized you can use the _all keyword when needing all snapshots, in the following way:
all_snapshots = es.snapshot.get(repository = 'my_backup', snapshot = '_all')