[role="xpack"]
[[logstash-api-get-pipeline]]
=== Get pipeline API
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<titleabbrev>Get {ls} pipeline</titleabbrev>
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This API retrieves pipelines used for
{logstash-ref}/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management.html[{ls} Central
Management].

[[logstash-api-get-pipeline-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET _logstash/pipeline`

`GET _logstash/pipeline/<pipeline_id>`

[[logstash-api-get-pipeline-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the
`manage_logstash_pipelines` cluster privilege to use this API.

[[logstash-api-get-pipeline-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Retrieve one or more {ls} pipelines.

[[logstash-api-get-pipeline-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<pipeline_id>`::
  (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of pipeline identifiers.

[[logstash-api-get-pipeline-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example retrieves the pipeline named `my_pipeline`:

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[source,console]
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PUT _logstash/pipeline/my_pipeline
{
  "description": "Sample pipeline for illustration purposes",
  "last_modified": "2021-01-02T02:50:51.250Z",
  "pipeline_metadata": {
    "type": "logstash_pipeline",
    "version": "1"
  },
  "username": "elastic",
  "pipeline": "input {}\n filter { grok {} }\n output {}",
  "pipeline_settings": {
    "pipeline.workers": 1,
    "pipeline.batch.size": 125,
    "pipeline.batch.delay": 50,
    "queue.type": "memory",
    "queue.max_bytes": "1gb",
    "queue.checkpoint.writes": 1024
  }
}
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[source,console]
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GET _logstash/pipeline/my_pipeline
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// TEST[continued]


If the request succeeds, the body of the response contains the pipeline definition:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "my_pipeline": {
    "description": "Sample pipeline for illustration purposes",
    "last_modified": "2021-01-02T02:50:51.250Z",
    "pipeline_metadata": {
      "type": "logstash_pipeline",
      "version": "1"
    },
    "username": "elastic",
    "pipeline": "input {}\n filter { grok {} }\n output {}",
    "pipeline_settings": {
      "pipeline.workers": 1,
      "pipeline.batch.size": 125,
      "pipeline.batch.delay": 50,
      "queue.type": "memory",
      "queue.max_bytes": "1gb",
      "queue.checkpoint.writes": 1024
    }
  }
}
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