[[api-rest-info]]
==== Info API

The watcher info API gives basic version information on the watcher plugin that is installed.

The following example queries the `info` API.

[source,js]
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GET _watcher
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// AUTOSENSE

A successful call returns a JSON structure similar to the following example:

[source,js]
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{
   "version": {
      "name": "2.0.0",
      "number": "2.0.0", <1>
      "build_hash": "41f64213d2d370bf66f0e9b839a30a19", <2>
      "build_timestamp": "2015-04-07T13:34:42Z", <3>
      "build_snapshot": true <4>
   }
}
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<1> The build number of the plugin
<2> The build hash of the plugin
<3> The time the plugin was built
<4> Whether or not this plugin was a development snapshot build