Resume a workflow execution from an external link

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

GET /api/workflows/executions/{executionId}/steps/{stepId}/resume/external

Resume a paused waitForApproval step (pauses the workflow and waits for a human to approve/decline before execution continues) or waitForInput step (passes the expected input values as query parameters in the URL). Returns an HTML confirmation page.

Authentication

Api key

Authorization: <value>

These APIs use key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example: Authorization: ApiKey base64AccessApiKey

Basic

Authorization: Basic <credentials>

Path parameters

Query parameters

Response

An HTML confirmation page confirming that the response was received and the workflow execution was resumed.

text/html

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET kbn://api/workflows/executions/{executionId}/steps/{stepId}/resume/external?token={resumeToken}&approved=true

curl Shell

curl \
  -X GET "${KIBANA_URL}/api/workflows/executions/{executionId}/steps/{stepId}/resume/external?token=${RESUME_TOKEN}&approved=true"

Response

Success page confirming the response was received

<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><h1>Thank you</h1><p>Your response was received. You can close this window.</p></body></html>