[role="xpack"]
[[watcher-api-ack-watch]]
=== Ack watch API
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<titleabbrev>Ack watch</titleabbrev>
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{stack-ov}/actions.html#actions-ack-throttle[Acknowledging a watch] enables you
to manually throttle execution of the watch's actions. An action's
_acknowledgement state_ is stored in the `status.actions.<id>.ack.state`
structure.

IMPORTANT: If the specified watch is currently being executed, this API will return
an error. The reason for this is to prevent overwriting of the watch status from a watch
execution.

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==== Request

`PUT _watcher/watch/<watch_id>/_ack` +

`PUT _watcher/watch/<watch_id>/_ack/<action_id>`

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==== Path Parameters

`action_id`::
  (list) A comma-separated list of the action IDs to acknowledge. If you omit
  this parameter, all of the actions of the watch are acknowledged.

`watch_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the watch.

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==== Authorization

You must have `manage_watcher` cluster privileges to use this API. For more
information, see {xpack-ref}/security-privileges.html[Security Privileges].


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==== Examples

To demonstrate let's create a new watch:

[source,js]
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PUT _watcher/watch/my_watch
{
  "trigger": {
    "schedule": {
      "hourly": {
        "minute": [ 0, 5 ]
      }
    }
  },
  "input": {
    "simple": {
      "payload": {
        "send": "yes"
      }
    }
  },
  "condition": {
    "always": {}
  },
  "actions": {
    "test_index": {
      "throttle_period": "15m",
      "index": {
        "index": "test",
        "doc_type": "test2"
      }
    }
  }
}
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// CONSOLE
// TESTSETUP

The current status of a watch and the state of its actions is returned with the
watch definition when you call the <<watcher-api-get-watch, Get Watch API>>:

[source,js]
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GET _watcher/watch/my_watch
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// CONSOLE

The action state of a newly-created watch is `awaits_successful_execution`:

[source,js]
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{
  "found": true,
  "_version": 1,
  "_id": "my_watch",
  "status": {
    "version": 1,
    "actions": {
      "test_index": {
        "ack": {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z",
          "state": "awaits_successful_execution"
        }
      }
    },
    "state": ...
  },
  "watch": ...
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"state": \.\.\./"state": "$body.status.state"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"watch": \.\.\./"watch": "$body.watch"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.ack.timestamp"/]

When the watch executes and the condition matches, the value of the `ack.state`
changes to `ackable`. Let's force execution of the watch and fetch it again to
check the status:

[source,js]
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POST _watcher/watch/my_watch/_execute
{
  "record_execution" : true
}

GET _watcher/watch/my_watch
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

and the action is now in `ackable` state:

[source,js]
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{
  "found": true,
  "_id": "my_watch",
  "_version": 2,
  "status": {
    "version": 2,
    "actions": {
      "test_index": {
        "ack": {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z",
          "state": "ackable"
        },
        "last_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z",
          "successful": true
        },
        "last_successful_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z",
          "successful": true
        }
      }
    },
    "state": ...,
    "execution_state": "executed",
    "last_checked": ...,
    "last_met_condition": ...
  },
  "watch": ...
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"state": \.\.\./"state": "$body.status.state"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"watch": \.\.\./"watch": "$body.watch"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_checked": \.\.\./"last_checked": "$body.status.last_checked"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_met_condition": \.\.\./"last_met_condition": "$body.status.last_met_condition"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.ack.timestamp"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.last_execution.timestamp"/]

Now we can acknowledge it:

[source,js]
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PUT _watcher/watch/my_watch/_ack/test_index
GET _watcher/watch/my_watch
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

[source,js]
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{
  "found": true,
  "_id": "my_watch",
  "_version": 3,
  "status": {
    "version": 3,
    "actions": {
      "test_index": {
        "ack": {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z",
          "state": "acked"
        },
        "last_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z",
          "successful": true
        },
        "last_successful_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z",
          "successful": true
        }
      }
    },
    "state": ...,
    "execution_state": "executed",
    "last_checked": ...,
    "last_met_condition": ...
  },
  "watch": ...
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"state": \.\.\./"state": "$body.status.state"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"watch": \.\.\./"watch": "$body.watch"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_checked": \.\.\./"last_checked": "$body.status.last_checked"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_met_condition": \.\.\./"last_met_condition": "$body.status.last_met_condition"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.ack.timestamp"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.last_execution.timestamp"/]

Acknowledging an action throttles further executions of that action until its
`ack.state` is reset to `awaits_successful_execution`. This happens when the
condition of the watch is not met (the condition evaluates to `false`).

You can acknowledge multiple actions by assigning the `actions` parameter a
comma-separated list of action ids:

[source,js]
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POST _watcher/watch/my_watch/_ack/action1,action2
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// CONSOLE

To acknowledge all of the actions of a watch, simply omit the `actions`
parameter:

[source,js]
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POST _watcher/watch/my_watch/_ack
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// TEST[s/^/POST _watcher\/watch\/my_watch\/_execute\n{ "record_execution" : true }\n/]
// CONSOLE


The response looks like a get watch response, but only contains the status:

[source,js]
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{
  "status": {
    "state": {
      "active": true,
      "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z"
    },
    "last_checked": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.753Z",
    "last_met_condition": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.763Z",
    "actions": {
      "test_index": {
        "ack" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.713Z",
          "state": "acked"
        },
        "last_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.733Z",
          "successful": true
        },
        "last_successful_execution" : {
          "timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.773Z",
          "successful": true
        }
      }
    },
    "execution_state": "executed",
    "version": 2
  }
}

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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_checked": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.753Z"/"last_checked": "$body.status.last_checked"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"last_met_condition": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.763Z"/"last_met_condition": "$body.status.last_met_condition"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.723Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.state.timestamp"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-26T18:04:27.713Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.ack.timestamp"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.733Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.last_execution.timestamp"/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"timestamp": "2015-05-25T18:04:27.773Z"/"timestamp": "$body.status.actions.test_index.last_successful_execution.timestamp"/]