elasticsearch/docs/reference/indices/recovery.asciidoc

[[indices-recovery]]
== Indices Recovery

The indices recovery API provides insight into on-going index shard recoveries.
Recovery status may be reported for specific indices, or cluster-wide.

For example, the following command would show recovery information for the indices "index1" and "index2".

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GET index1,index2/_recovery?human
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/^/PUT index1\nPUT index2\n/]

To see cluster-wide recovery status simply leave out the index names.

[source,js]
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GET /_recovery?human
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/^/PUT index1\n{"settings": {"index.number_of_shards": 1}}\n/]

Response:
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{
  "index1" : {
    "shards" : [ {
      "id" : 0,
      "type" : "SNAPSHOT",
      "stage" : "INDEX",
      "primary" : true,
      "start_time" : "2014-02-24T12:15:59.716",
      "start_time_in_millis": 1393244159716,
      "total_time" : "2.9m",
      "total_time_in_millis" : 175576,
      "source" : {
        "repository" : "my_repository",
        "snapshot" : "my_snapshot",
        "index" : "index1"
      },
      "target" : {
        "id" : "ryqJ5lO5S4-lSFbGntkEkg",
        "hostname" : "my.fqdn",
        "ip" : "10.0.1.7",
        "name" : "my_es_node"
      },
      "index" : {
        "size" : {
          "total" : "75.4mb",
          "total_in_bytes" : 79063092,
          "reused" : "0b",
          "reused_in_bytes" : 0,
          "recovered" : "65.7mb",
          "recovered_in_bytes" : 68891939,
          "percent" : "87.1%"
        },
        "files" : {
          "total" : 73,
          "reused" : 0,
          "recovered" : 69,
          "percent" : "94.5%"
        },
        "total_time" : "0s",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 0
      },
      "translog" : {
        "recovered" : 0,
        "total" : 0,
        "percent" : "100.0%",
        "total_on_start" : 0,
        "total_time" : "0s",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 0,
      },
      "start" : {
        "check_index_time" : "0s",
        "check_index_time_in_millis" : 0,
        "total_time" : "0s",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 0
      }
    } ]
  }
}
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The above response shows a single index recovering a single shard. In this case, the source of the recovery is a snapshot repository
and the target of the recovery is the node with name "my_es_node".

Additionally, the output shows the number and percent of files recovered, as well as the number and percent of bytes recovered.

In some cases a higher level of detail may be preferable. Setting "detailed=true" will present a list of physical files in recovery.

[source,js]
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GET _recovery?human&detailed=true
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Response:

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{
  "index1" : {
    "shards" : [ {
      "id" : 0,
      "type" : "STORE",
      "stage" : "DONE",
      "primary" : true,
      "start_time" : "2014-02-24T12:38:06.349",
      "start_time_in_millis" : "1393245486349",
      "stop_time" : "2014-02-24T12:38:08.464",
      "stop_time_in_millis" : "1393245488464",
      "total_time" : "2.1s",
      "total_time_in_millis" : 2115,
      "source" : {
        "id" : "RGMdRc-yQWWKIBM4DGvwqQ",
        "hostname" : "my.fqdn",
        "ip" : "10.0.1.7",
        "name" : "my_es_node"
      },
      "target" : {
        "id" : "RGMdRc-yQWWKIBM4DGvwqQ",
        "hostname" : "my.fqdn",
        "ip" : "10.0.1.7",
        "name" : "my_es_node"
      },
      "index" : {
        "size" : {
          "total" : "24.7mb",
          "total_in_bytes" : 26001617,
          "reused" : "24.7mb",
          "reused_in_bytes" : 26001617,
          "recovered" : "0b",
          "recovered_in_bytes" : 0,
          "percent" : "100.0%"
        },
        "files" : {
          "total" : 26,
          "reused" : 26,
          "recovered" : 0,
          "percent" : "100.0%",
          "details" : [ {
            "name" : "segments.gen",
            "length" : 20,
            "recovered" : 20
          }, {
            "name" : "_0.cfs",
            "length" : 135306,
            "recovered" : 135306
          }, {
            "name" : "segments_2",
            "length" : 251,
            "recovered" : 251
          },
           ...
          ]
        },
        "total_time" : "2ms",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 2
      },
      "translog" : {
        "recovered" : 71,
        "total_time" : "2.0s",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 2025
      },
      "start" : {
        "check_index_time" : 0,
        "total_time" : "88ms",
        "total_time_in_millis" : 88
      }
    } ]
  }
}
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This response shows a detailed listing (truncated for brevity) of the actual files recovered and their sizes.

Also shown are the timings in milliseconds of the various stages of recovery: index retrieval, translog replay, and index start time.

Note that the above listing indicates that the recovery is in stage "done". All recoveries, whether on-going or complete, are kept in
cluster state and may be reported on at any time. Setting "active_only=true" will cause only on-going recoveries to be reported.

Here is a complete list of options:

[horizontal]
`detailed`::        Display a detailed view. This is primarily useful for viewing the recovery of physical index files. Default: false.
`active_only`::     Display only those recoveries that are currently on-going. Default: false.

Description of output fields:

[horizontal]
`id`::              Shard ID
`type`::            Recovery type:
                        * store
                        * snapshot
                        * replica
                        * relocating
`stage`::           Recovery stage:
                        * init:     Recovery has not started
                        * index:    Reading index meta-data and copying bytes from source to destination
                        * start:    Starting the engine; opening the index for use
                        * translog: Replaying transaction log
                        * finalize: Cleanup
                        * done:     Complete
`primary`::         True if shard is primary, false otherwise
`start_time`::      Timestamp of recovery start
`stop_time`::       Timestamp of recovery finish
`total_time_in_millis`::    Total time to recover shard in milliseconds
`source`::          Recovery source:
                        * repository description if recovery is from a snapshot
                        * description of source node otherwise
`target`::          Destination node
`index`::           Statistics about physical index recovery
`translog`::        Statistics about translog recovery
`start`::           Statistics about time to open and start the index