how to use the elasticsearch python api to get an overview of all snapshots that have been created

Question

I'm using the elasticsearch python api to communicate with my elasticsearch database. How can I make a specific GET request to get an overview of all the snapshots that have been created?

The (Kibana) commandline for this would be: GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all .

Actually my question boils down to: How to make a specific GET request if I already know the syntax, it seems the Elasticsearch.get() function is only suited to retrieve documents.

Ofcourse I could quite easily do this using the Requests module, but this is not what I want.

The snapshot helper functions only have the option to get an overview of snapshots that are currently running.

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()
es.snapshot.get_repository('my_backup') # configuration information
es.snapshot.status('my_backup') # currently running snapshots

Answer 1

我终于意识到你可以在需要所有快照时使用_all关键字，方法如下：

all_snapshots = es.snapshot.get(repository = 'my_backup', snapshot = '_all')

Answer 2

Just adding one of my own as this got me in the right path. If you need to get the general snapshot status ie if a snapshot is being run:

es_session.snapshot.status('_all')