[[get-connector-sync-job-api]]
=== Get connector sync job API
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<titleabbrev>Get connector sync job</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves the details about a connector sync job.

[[get-connector-sync-job-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET _connector/_sync_job/<connector_sync_job_id>`

[[get-connector-sync-job-api-prereq]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the {enterprise-search-ref}/build-connector.html[Elastic connector service] on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for native connectors.

[[get-connector-sync-job-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<connector_sync_job_id>`::
(Required, string)

[[get-connector-sync-job-api-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`400`::
The `connector_sync_job_id` was not provided.

`404` (Missing resources)::
No connector sync job matching `connector_sync_job_id` could be found.

[[get-connector-sync-job-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example gets the connector sync job `my-connector-sync-job`:

[source,console]
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GET _connector/_sync_job/my-connector-sync-job
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// TEST[skip:there's no way to clean up after creating a connector sync job, as we don't know the id ahead of time. Therefore, skip this test.]
