Create a data stream | Elasticsearch API documentation (v9)

Create a data stream Generally available; Added in 7.9.0

PUT /_data_stream/{name}

You must have a matching index template with data stream enabled.

name string Required

Name of the data stream, which must meet the following criteria: Lowercase only; Cannot include \, /, *, ?, ", <, >, |, ,, #, :, or a space character; Cannot start with -, _, +, or .ds-; Cannot be . or ..; Cannot be longer than 255 bytes. Multi-byte characters count towards this limit faster.

master_timeout string

Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

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timeout string

Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

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200 application/json
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- acknowledged boolean Required
  
  For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.

PUT /_data_stream/{name}

PUT _data_stream/logs-foo-bar

resp = client.indices.create_data_stream(
    name="logs-foo-bar",
)

const response = await client.indices.createDataStream({
  name: "logs-foo-bar",
});

response = client.indices.create_data_stream(
  name: "logs-foo-bar"
)

$resp = $client->indices()->createDataStream([
    "name" => "logs-foo-bar",
]);

curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_data_stream/logs-foo-bar"