Managing watches

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Watcher provides a set of APIs you can use to manage your watches, including operations to create, update, retrieve, activate, deactivate, acknowledge, and delete watches. You can also list watches by querying the .watches index.

• Use the create or update watch API to add or update watches
• Use the get watch API to retrieve watches
• Use the delete watch API to delete watches
• Use the activate watch API to activate watches
• Use the deactivate watch API to deactivate watches
• Use the ack watch API to acknowledge watches

Currently there is not dedicated API for listing the stored watches. However, since Watcher stores its watches in the .watches index, you can list them by executing a search on this index.

For example, the following returns the first 100 watches:

				GET /_watcher/_query/watches
					{
  "size" : 100
}