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Update connector error API

This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Updates the error field of a connector.

To get started with Connector APIs, check out our tutorial.

Request

PUT _connector/<connector_id>/_error

Prerequisites

To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the Elastic connector service. on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for Elastic managed connectors.
The connector_id parameter should reference an existing connector.

Description

Sets the error field for the specified connector. If the error provided in the request body is non-null, the connector’s status is updated to error. Otherwise, if the error is reset to null, the connector status is updated to connected.

Path parameters

<connector_id>: (Required, string)

Request body

error: (Required, string) A messaged related to the last error encountered by the connector.

Response codes

200: Connector error field was successfully updated.
400: The connector_id was not provided or the request payload was malformed.
404 (Missing resources): No connector matching connector_id could be found.

Examples

The following example updates the error field for the connector with ID my-connector:

resp = client.connector.update_error(
    connector_id="my-connector",
    error="Houston, we have a problem!",
)
print(resp)

response = client.connector.update_error(
  connector_id: 'my-connector',
  body: {
    error: 'Houston, we have a problem!'
  }
)
puts response

const response = await client.connector.updateError({
  connector_id: "my-connector",
  error: "Houston, we have a problem!",
});
console.log(response);

PUT _connector/my-connector/_error
{
    "error": "Houston, we have a problem!"
}

{
    "result": "updated"
}

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