-- :api: ack-watch :request: AckWatchRequest :response: AckWatchResponse -- [role="xpack"] [id="{upid}-{api}"] === Ack watch API [id="{upid}-{api}-request"] ==== Execution {ref}/actions.html#actions-ack-throttle[Acknowledging a watch] enables you to manually throttle execution of a watch's actions. A watch can be acknowledged through the following request: ["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"] -------------------------------------------------- include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request] -------------------------------------------------- <1> The ID of the watch to ack. <2> An optional list of IDs representing the watch actions that should be acked. If no action IDs are provided, then all of the watch's actions will be acked. [id="{upid}-{api}-response"] ==== Response The returned +{response}+ contains the new status of the requested watch: ["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"] -------------------------------------------------- include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response] -------------------------------------------------- <1> The status of a specific action that was acked. <2> The acknowledgement state of the action. If the action was successfully acked, this state will be equal to `AckStatus.State.ACKED`. include::../execution.asciidoc[]