10.2.1. `/`¶

GET /¶

Accessing the root of a CouchDB instance returns meta information about the instance. The response is a JSON structure containing information about the server, including a welcome message and the version of the server.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

Request:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 179
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:33:33 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "couchdb": "Welcome",
    "uuid": "85fb71bf700c17267fef77535820e371",
    "vendor": {
        "name": "The Apache Software Foundation",
        "version": "1.3.1"
    },
    "version": "1.3.1"
}

10.2.2. `/_active_tasks`¶

Changed in version 2.1.0: Because of how the scheduling replicator works, continuous replication jobs could be periodically stopped and then started later. When they are not running they will not appear in the _active_tasks endpoint

GET /_active_tasks¶

List of running tasks, including the task type, name, status and process ID. The result is a JSON array of the currently running tasks, with each task being described with a single object. Depending on operation type set of response object fields might be different.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Response JSON Object:
	changes_done (number) – Processed changes database (string) – Source database pid (string) – Process ID progress (number) – Current percentage progress started_on (number) – Task start time as unix timestamp status (string) – Task status message task (string) – Task name total_changes (number) – Total changes to process type (string) – Operation Type updated_on (number) – Unix timestamp of last operation update
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

Request:

GET /_active_tasks HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 1690
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:37:31 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

[
    {
        "changes_done": 64438,
        "database": "mailbox",
        "pid": "<0.12986.1>",
        "progress": 84,
        "started_on": 1376116576,
        "total_changes": 76215,
        "type": "database_compaction",
        "updated_on": 1376116619
    },
    {
        "changes_done": 14443,
        "database": "mailbox",
        "design_document": "c9753817b3ba7c674d92361f24f59b9f",
        "pid": "<0.10461.3>",
        "progress": 18,
        "started_on": 1376116621,
        "total_changes": 76215,
        "type": "indexer",
        "updated_on": 1376116650
    },
    {
        "changes_done": 5454,
        "database": "mailbox",
        "design_document": "_design/meta",
        "pid": "<0.6838.4>",
        "progress": 7,
        "started_on": 1376116632,
        "total_changes": 76215,
        "type": "indexer",
        "updated_on": 1376116651
    },
    {
        "checkpointed_source_seq": 68585,
        "continuous": false,
        "doc_id": null,
        "doc_write_failures": 0,
        "docs_read": 4524,
        "docs_written": 4524,
        "missing_revisions_found": 4524,
        "pid": "<0.1538.5>",
        "progress": 44,
        "replication_id": "9bc1727d74d49d9e157e260bb8bbd1d5",
        "revisions_checked": 4524,
        "source": "mailbox",
        "source_seq": 154419,
        "started_on": 1376116644,
        "target": "http://mailsrv:5984/mailbox",
        "type": "replication",
        "updated_on": 1376116651
    }
]

10.2.3. `/_all_dbs`¶

GET /_all_dbs¶

Returns a list of all the databases in the CouchDB instance.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

Request:

GET /_all_dbs HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 52
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:57:48 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

[
   "_users",
   "contacts",
   "docs",
   "invoices",
   "locations"
]

10.2.4. `/_cluster_setup`¶

GET /_cluster_setup¶

Returns the status of the node or cluster, per the cluster setup wizard.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Query Parameters:
	ensure_dbs_exist (array) – List of system databases to ensure exist on the node/cluster. Defaults to `["_users","_replicator","_global_changes"]`.
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Response JSON Object:
	state (string) – Current `state` of the node and/or cluster (see below)
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

The state returned indicates the current node or cluster state, and is one of the following:

cluster_disabled: The current node is completely unconfigured.
single_node_disabled: The current node is configured as a single (standalone) node ([cluster] n=1), but either does not have a server-level admin user defined, or does not have the standard system databases created. If the ensure_dbs_exist query parameter is specified, the list of databases provided overrides the default list of standard system databases.
single_node_enabled: The current node is configured as a single (standalone) node, has a server-level admin user defined, and has the ensure_dbs_exist list (explicit or default) of databases created.
cluster_enabled: The current node has [cluster] n > 1, is not bound to 127.0.0.1 and has a server-level admin user defined. However, the full set of standard system databases have not been created yet. If the ensure_dbs_exist query parameter is specified, the list of databases provided overrides the default list of standard system databases.
cluster_finished: The current node has [cluster] n > 1, is not bound to 127.0.0.1, has a server-level admin user defined and has the ensure_dbs_exist list (explicit or default) of databases created.

Request:

GET /_cluster_setup HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-CouchDB-Body-Time: 0
X-Couch-Request-ID: 5c058bdd37
Server: CouchDB/2.1.0-7f17678 (Erlang OTP/17)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:33:18 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 29
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"state":"cluster_enabled"}

POST /_cluster_setup¶

Configure a node as a single (standalone) node, as part of a cluster, or finalise a cluster.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain Content-Type – application/json
Request JSON Object:
	action (string) – enable_single_node: Configure the current node as a single, standalone CouchDB server. enable_cluster: Configure the local or remote node as one node, preparing it to be joined to a new CouchDB cluster. add_node: Add the specified remote node to this cluster’s list of nodes, joining it to the cluster. finish_cluster: Finalise the cluster by creating the standard system databases. bind_address (string) – The IP address to which to bind the current node. The special value `0.0.0.0` may be specified to bind to all interfaces on the host. (enable_cluster and enable_single_node only) username (string) – The username of the server-level administrator to create. (enable_cluster and enable_single_node only), or the remote server’s administrator username (add_node) password (string) – The password for the server-level administrator to create. (enable_cluster and enable_single_node only), or the remote server’s administrator username (add_node) port (number) – The TCP port to which to bind this node (enable_cluster and enable_single_node only) or the TCP port to which to bind a remote node (add_node only). node_count (number) – The total number of nodes to be joined into the cluster, including this one. Used to determine the value of the cluster’s `n`, up to a maximum of 3. (enable_cluster only) remote_node (string) – The IP address of the remote node to setup as part of this cluster’s list of nodes. (enable_cluster only) remote_current_user (string) – The username of the server-level administrator authorized on the remote node. (enable_cluster only) remote_current_password (string) – The password of the server-level administrator authorized on the remote node. (enable_cluster only) host (string) – The remote node IP of the node to add to the cluster. (add_node only) ensure_dbs_exist (array) – List of system databases to ensure exist on the node/cluster. Defaults to `["_users","_replicator","_global_changes"]`.

No example request/response included here. For a worked example, please see The Cluster Setup API.

10.2.5. `/_db_updates`¶

New in version 1.4.

GET /_db_updates¶

Returns a list of all database events in the CouchDB instance.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Query Parameters:
	feed (string) – normal: Returns all historical DB changes, then closes the connection. Default. longpoll: Closes the connection after the first event. continuous: Send a line of JSON per event. Keeps the socket open until `timeout`. eventsource: Like, `continuous`, but sends the events in EventSource format. timeout (number) – Number of seconds until CouchDB closes the connection. Default is `60`. heartbeat (number) – Period in milliseconds after which an empty line is sent in the results. Only applicable for `longpoll`, `continuous`, and `eventsource` feeds. Overrides any timeout to keep the feed alive indefinitely. Default is `60000`. May be `true` to use default value. since (string) – Return only updates since the specified sequence ID. May be the string `now` to begin showing only new updates.
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding – `chunked`
Response JSON Object:
	results (array) – An array of database events. For `longpoll` and `continuous` modes, the entire response is the contents of the `results` array. last_seq (string) – The last sequence ID reported.
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

The results field of database updates:

JSON Object:	db_name (string) – Database name. type (string) – A database event is one of `created`, `updated`, `deleted`. seq (json) – Update sequence of the event.

Request:

GET /_db_updates HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:01:35 GMT
Etag: "C1KU98Y6H0LGM7EQQYL6VSL07"
Server: CouchDB/2.0.0 (Erlang OTP/17)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Couch-Request-ID: ad87efc7ff
X-CouchDB-Body-Time: 0

{
    "results":[
        {"db_name":"mailbox","type":"created","seq":"1-g1AAAAFReJzLYWBg4MhgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCjMlMiTJ____PyuDOZExFyjAnmJhkWaeaIquGIf2JAUgmWQPMiGRAZcaB5CaePxqEkBq6vGqyWMBkgwNQAqobD4h"},
        {"db_name":"mailbox","type":"deleted","seq":"2-g1AAAAFReJzLYWBg4MhgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCjMlMiTJ____PyuDOZEpFyjAnmJhkWaeaIquGIf2JAUgmWQPMiGRAZcaB5CaePxqEkBq6vGqyWMBkgwNQAqobD4hdQsg6vYTUncAou4-IXUPIOpA7ssCAIFHa60"},
    ],
    "last_seq": "2-g1AAAAFReJzLYWBg4MhgTmHgzcvPy09JdcjLz8gvLskBCjMlMiTJ____PyuDOZEpFyjAnmJhkWaeaIquGIf2JAUgmWQPMiGRAZcaB5CaePxqEkBq6vGqyWMBkgwNQAqobD4hdQsg6vYTUncAou4-IXUPIOpA7ssCAIFHa60"
}

10.2.6. `/_membership`¶

New in version 2.0.

GET /_membership¶

Displays the nodes that are part of the cluster as cluster_nodes. The field all_nodes displays all nodes this node knows about, including the ones that are part of the cluster. The endpoint is useful when setting up a cluster, see Node Management

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

Request:

GET /_membership HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:02:41 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)
Content-Length: 142

{
    "all_nodes": [
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]"
    ],
    "cluster_nodes": [
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]"
    ]
}

10.2.7. `/_replicate`¶

POST /_replicate¶

Request, configure, or stop, a replication operation.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain Content-Type – application/json
Request JSON Object:
	cancel (boolean) – Cancels the replication continuous (boolean) – Configure the replication to be continuous create_target (boolean) – Creates the target database. Required administrator’s privileges on target server. doc_ids (array) – Array of document IDs to be synchronized filter (string) – The name of a filter function. proxy (string) – Address of a proxy server through which replication should occur (protocol can be “http” or “socks5”) source (string) – Source database name or URL target (string) – Target database name or URL
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Response JSON Object:
	history (array) – Replication history (see below) ok (boolean) – Replication status replication_id_version (number) – Replication protocol version session_id (string) – Unique session ID source_last_seq (number) – Last sequence number read from source database
Status Codes:	200 OK – Replication request successfully completed 202 Accepted – Continuous replication request has been accepted 400 Bad Request – Invalid JSON data 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required 404 Not Found – Either the source or target DB is not found or attempt to cancel unknown replication task 500 Internal Server Error – JSON specification was invalid

The specification of the replication request is controlled through the JSON content of the request. The JSON should be an object with the fields defining the source, target and other options.

The Replication history is an array of objects with following structure:

JSON Object:

doc_write_failures (number) – Number of document write failures
docs_read (number) – Number of documents read
docs_written (number) – Number of documents written to target
end_last_seq (number) – Last sequence number in changes stream
end_time (string) – Date/Time replication operation completed in RFC 2822 format
missing_checked (number) – Number of missing documents checked
missing_found (number) – Number of missing documents found
recorded_seq (number) – Last recorded sequence number
session_id (string) – Session ID for this replication operation
start_last_seq (number) – First sequence number in changes stream
start_time (string) – Date/Time replication operation started in RFC 2822 format

Request

POST /_replicate HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Length: 36
Content-Type: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

{
    "source": "db_a",
    "target": "db_b"
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 692
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:38:50 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "history": [
        {
            "doc_write_failures": 0,
            "docs_read": 10,
            "docs_written": 10,
            "end_last_seq": 28,
            "end_time": "Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:38:50 GMT",
            "missing_checked": 10,
            "missing_found": 10,
            "recorded_seq": 28,
            "session_id": "142a35854a08e205c47174d91b1f9628",
            "start_last_seq": 1,
            "start_time": "Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:38:50 GMT"
        },
        {
            "doc_write_failures": 0,
            "docs_read": 1,
            "docs_written": 1,
            "end_last_seq": 1,
            "end_time": "Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:41:54 GMT",
            "missing_checked": 1,
            "missing_found": 1,
            "recorded_seq": 1,
            "session_id": "6314f35c51de3ac408af79d6ee0c1a09",
            "start_last_seq": 0,
            "start_time": "Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:41:54 GMT"
        }
    ],
    "ok": true,
    "replication_id_version": 3,
    "session_id": "142a35854a08e205c47174d91b1f9628",
    "source_last_seq": 28
}

Replication Operation¶

The aim of the replication is that at the end of the process, all active documents on the source database are also in the destination database and all documents that were deleted in the source databases are also deleted (if they exist) on the destination database.

Replication can be described as either push or pull replication:

Pull replication is where the source is the remote CouchDB instance, and the target is the local database.

Pull replication is the most useful solution to use if your source database has a permanent IP address, and your destination (local) database may have a dynamically assigned IP address (for example, through DHCP). This is particularly important if you are replicating to a mobile or other device from a central server.
Push replication is where the source is a local database, and target is a remote database.

Specifying the Source and Target Database¶

You must use the URL specification of the CouchDB database if you want to perform replication in either of the following two situations:

Replication with a remote database (i.e. another instance of CouchDB on the same host, or a different host)
Replication with a database that requires authentication

For example, to request replication between a database local to the CouchDB instance to which you send the request, and a remote database you might use the following request:

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

{
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "http://coucdb-remote:5984/recipes",
}

In all cases, the requested databases in the source and target specification must exist. If they do not, an error will be returned within the JSON object:

{
    "error" : "db_not_found"
    "reason" : "could not open http://couchdb-remote:5984/ol1ka/",
}

You can create the target database (providing your user credentials allow it) by adding the create_target field to the request object:

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

{
    "create_target" : true
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "http://couchdb-remote:5984/recipes",
}

The create_target field is not destructive. If the database already exists, the replication proceeds as normal.

Single Replication¶

You can request replication of a database so that the two databases can be synchronized. By default, the replication process occurs one time and synchronizes the two databases together. For example, you can request a single synchronization between two databases by supplying the source and target fields within the request JSON content.

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "recipes-snapshot",
}

In the above example, the databases recipes and recipes-snapshot will be synchronized. These databases are local to the CouchDB instance where the request was made. The response will be a JSON structure containing the success (or failure) of the synchronization process, and statistics about the process:

{
    "ok" : true,
    "history" : [
        {
            "docs_read" : 1000,
            "session_id" : "52c2370f5027043d286daca4de247db0",
            "recorded_seq" : 1000,
            "end_last_seq" : 1000,
            "doc_write_failures" : 0,
            "start_time" : "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:24:13 GMT",
            "start_last_seq" : 0,
            "end_time" : "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:24:14 GMT",
            "missing_checked" : 0,
            "docs_written" : 1000,
            "missing_found" : 1000
        }
    ],
    "session_id" : "52c2370f5027043d286daca4de247db0",
    "source_last_seq" : 1000
}

Continuous Replication¶

Synchronization of a database with the previously noted methods happens only once, at the time the replicate request is made. To have the target database permanently replicated from the source, you must set the continuous field of the JSON object within the request to true.

With continuous replication changes in the source database are replicated to the target database in perpetuity until you specifically request that replication ceases.

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "continuous" : true
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "http://couchdb-remote:5984/recipes",
}

Changes will be replicated between the two databases as long as a network connection is available between the two instances.

Note

Two keep two databases synchronized with each other, you need to set replication in both directions; that is, you must replicate from source to target, and separately from target to source.

Canceling Continuous Replication¶

You can cancel continuous replication by adding the cancel field to the JSON request object and setting the value to true. Note that the structure of the request must be identical to the original for the cancellation request to be honoured. For example, if you requested continuous replication, the cancellation request must also contain the continuous field.

For example, the replication request:

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

{
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "http://couchdb-remote:5984/recipes",
    "create_target" : true,
    "continuous" : true
}

Must be canceled using the request:

POST http://couchdb:5984/_replicate HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "cancel" : true,
    "continuous" : true
    "create_target" : true,
    "source" : "recipes",
    "target" : "http://couchdb-remote:5984/recipes",
}

Requesting cancellation of a replication that does not exist results in a 404 error.

10.2.8. `/_scheduler/jobs`¶

GET /_scheduler/jobs¶

List of replication jobs. Includes replications created via /_replicate endpoint as well as those created from replication documents. Does not include replications which have completed or have failed to start because replication documents were malformed. Each job description will include source and target information, replication id, a history of recent event, and a few other things.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json
Query Parameters:
	limit (number) – How many results to return skip (number) – How many result to skip starting at the beginning, ordered by replication ID
Response JSON Object:
	offset (number) – How many results were skipped total_rows (number) – Total number of replication jobs id (string) – Replication ID. database (string) – Replication document database doc_id (string) – Replication document ID history (list) – Timestamped history of events as a list of objects pid (string) – Replication process ID node (string) – Cluster node where the job is running source (string) – Replication source target (string) – Replication target start_time (string) – Timestamp of when the replication was started
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

Request:

GET /_scheduler/jobs HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 1690
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:05:16 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "jobs": [
        {
            "database": "_replicator",
            "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000003",
            "history": [
                {
                    "timestamp": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
                    "type": "started"
                },
                {
                    "timestamp": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
                    "type": "added"
                }
            ],
            "id": "8f5b1bd0be6f9166ccfd36fc8be8fc22+continuous",
            "node": "[email protected]",
            "pid": "<0.1850.0>",
            "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
            "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000003/",
            "user": null
        },
        {
            "database": "_replicator",
            "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000002",
            "history": [
                {
                    "timestamp": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
                    "type": "started"
                },
                {
                    "timestamp": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
                    "type": "added"
                }
            ],
            "id": "e327d79214831ca4c11550b4a453c9ba+continuous",
            "node": "[email protected]",
            "pid": "<0.1757.0>",
            "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
            "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000002/",
            "user": null
        }
    ],
    "offset": 0,
    "total_rows": 2
 }

10.2.9. `/_scheduler/docs`¶

Changed in version 2.1.0: Use this endpoint to monitor the state of document-based replications. Previously needed to poll both documents and _active_tasks to get a complete state summary

GET /_scheduler/docs¶

List of replication document states. Includes information about all the documents, even in completed and failed states. For each document it returns the document ID, the database, the replication ID, source and target, and other information.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json
Query Parameters:
	limit (number) – How many results to return skip (number) – How many result to skip starting at the beginning, if ordered by document ID
Response JSON Object:
	offset (number) – How many results were skipped total_rows (number) – Total number of replication documents. id (string) – Replication ID, or `null` if state is `completed` or `failed` state (string) – One of following states (see Replication states for descriptions): `initializing`, `running`, `completed`, `pending`, `crashing`, `error`, `failed` database (string) – Database where replication document came from doc_id (string) – Replication document ID node (string) – Cluster node where the job is running source (string) – Replication source target (string) – Replication target start_time (string) – Timestamp of when the replication was started last_update (string) – Timestamp of last state update info (string) – Additional information about the state, such as an error message for example error_count (number) – Consecutive errors count. Indicates how many times in a row this replication has crashed. Replication will be retried with an exponential backoff based on this number. As soon as the replication succeeds this count is reset to 0. To can be used to get an idea why a particular replication is not making progress.
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

Request:

GET /_scheduler/docs HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:10:08 GMT
Server: Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{
    "docs": [
        {
            "database": "_replicator",
            "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000002",
            "error_count": 0,
            "id": "e327d79214831ca4c11550b4a453c9ba+continuous",
            "info": null,
            "last_updated": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "node": "[email protected]",
            "proxy": null,
            "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
            "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "state": "running",
            "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000002/"
        },
        {
            "database": "_replicator",
            "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000003",
            "error_count": 0,
            "id": "8f5b1bd0be6f9166ccfd36fc8be8fc22+continuous",
            "info": null,
            "last_updated": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "node": "[email protected]",
            "proxy": null,
            "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
            "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "state": "running",
            "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000003/"
        }
    ],
    "offset": 0,
    "total_rows": 2
}

GET /_scheduler/docs/{replicator_db}¶

Get information about replication documents from a replicator database. The default replicator database is _replicator but other replicator databases can exist if their name ends with the suffix /_replicator.

Note

As a convenience slashes (/) in replicator db names do not have to be escaped. So /_scheduler/docs/other/_replicator is valid and equivalent to /_scheduler/docs/other%2f_replicator

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json
Query Parameters:
	limit (number) – How many results to return skip (number) – How many result to skip starting at the beginning, if ordered by document ID
Response JSON Object:
	offset (number) – How many results were skipped total_rows (number) – Total number of replication documents. id (string) – Replication ID, or `null` if state is `completed` or `failed` state (string) – One of following states (see Replication states for descriptions): `initializing`, `running`, `completed`, `pending`, `crashing`, `error`, `failed` database (string) – Database where replication document came from doc_id (string) – Replication document ID node (string) – Cluster node where the job is running source (string) – Replication source target (string) – Replication target start_time (string) – Timestamp of when the replication was started last_update (string) – Timestamp of last state update info (string) – Additional information about the state, such as an error message for example error_count (number) – Consecutive errors count. Indicates how many times in a row this replication has crashed. Replication will be retried with an exponential backoff based on this number. As soon as the replication succeeds this count is reset to 0. To can be used to get an idea why a particular replication is not making progress.
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

Request:

GET /_scheduler/docs/other/_replicator HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:10:08 GMT
Server: Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{
    "docs": [
        {
            "database": "other/_replicator",
            "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000002",
            "error_count": 0,
            "id": "e327d79214831ca4c11550b4a453c9ba+continuous",
            "info": null,
            "last_updated": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "node": "[email protected]",
            "proxy": null,
            "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
            "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
            "state": "running",
            "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000002/"
        }
    ],
    "offset": 0,
    "total_rows": 1
}

GET /_scheduler/docs/{replicator_db}/{docid}¶

Note

As a convenience slashes (/) in replicator db names do not have to be escaped. So /_scheduler/docs/other/_replicator is valid and equivalent to /_scheduler/docs/other%2f_replicator

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json
Response JSON Object:
	id (string) – Replication ID, or `null` if state is `completed` or `failed` state (string) – One of following states (see Replication states for descriptions): `initializing`, `running`, `completed`, `pending`, `crashing`, `error`, `failed` database (string) – Database where replication document came from doc_id (string) – Replication document ID node (string) – Cluster node where the job is running source (string) – Replication source target (string) – Replication target start_time (string) – Timestamp of when the replication was started last_update (string) – Timestamp of last state update info (string) – Additional information about the state, such as an error message for example error_count (number) – Consecutive errors count. Indicates how many times in a row this replication has crashed. Replication will be retried with an exponential backoff based on this number. As soon as the replication succeeds this count is reset to 0. To can be used to get an idea why a particular replication is not making progress.
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully Request:

GET /_scheduler/docs/other/_replicator/cdyno-0000001-0000002 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 05:10:08 GMT
Server: Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{
    "database": "other/_replicator",
    "doc_id": "cdyno-0000001-0000002",
    "error_count": 0,
    "id": "e327d79214831ca4c11550b4a453c9ba+continuous",
    "info": null,
    "last_updated": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
    "node": "[email protected]",
    "proxy": null,
    "source": "http://myserver.com/foo",
    "start_time": "2017-04-29T05:01:37Z",
    "state": "running",
    "target": "http://adm:*****@localhost:15984/cdyno-0000002/"
}

10.2.10. `/_restart`¶

POST /_restart¶

Restarts the CouchDB instance. You must be authenticated as a user with administration privileges for this to work.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain Content-Type – application/json
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Status Codes:	202 Accepted – Server goes to restart (there is no guarantee that it will be alive after) 401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required 415 Unsupported Media Type – Bad request`s Content-Type

Request:

POST /_restart HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:33:50 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "ok": true
}

10.2.11. `/_stats`¶

GET /_stats¶

The _stats resource returns a JSON object containing the statistics for the running server. The object is structured with top-level sections collating the statistics for a range of entries, with each individual statistic being easily identified, and the content of each statistic is self-describing

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

Request:

GET /_stats/couchdb/request_time HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 187
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:41:11 GMT
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "couchdb": {
        "request_time": {
            "current": 21.0,
            "description": "length of a request inside CouchDB without MochiWeb",
            "max": 19.0,
            "mean": 7.0,
            "min": 1.0,
            "stddev": 10.392,
            "sum": 21.0
        }
    }
}

The fields provide the current, minimum and maximum, and a collection of statistical means and quantities. The quantity in each case is not defined, but the descriptions below provide

The statistics are divided into the following top-level sections:

`couchdb`¶

Describes statistics specific to the internals of CouchDB

Statistic ID	Description	Unit
`auth_cache_hits`	Number of authentication cache hits	number
`auth_cache_misses`	Number of authentication cache misses	number
`database_reads`	Number of times a document was read from a database	number
`database_writes`	Number of times a database was changed	number
`open_databases`	Number of open databases	number
`open_os_files`	Number of file descriptors CouchDB has open	number
`request_time`	Length of a request inside CouchDB without MochiWeb	milliseconds

`httpd_request_methods`¶

Statistic ID	Description	Unit
`COPY`	Number of HTTP COPY requests	number
`DELETE`	Number of HTTP DELETE requests	number
`GET`	Number of HTTP GET requests	number
`HEAD`	Number of HTTP HEAD requests	number
`POST`	Number of HTTP POST requests	number
`PUT`	Number of HTTP PUT requests	number

`httpd_status_codes`¶

Statistic ID	Description	Unit
`200`	Number of HTTP 200 OK responses	number
`201`	Number of HTTP 201 Created responses	number
`202`	Number of HTTP 202 Accepted responses	number
`301`	Number of HTTP 301 Moved Permanently responses	number
`304`	Number of HTTP 304 Not Modified responses	number
`400`	Number of HTTP 400 Bad Request responses	number
`401`	Number of HTTP 401 Unauthorized responses	number
`403`	Number of HTTP 403 Forbidden responses	number
`404`	Number of HTTP 404 Not Found responses	number
`405`	Number of HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed responses	number
`409`	Number of HTTP 409 Conflict responses	number
`412`	Number of HTTP 412 Precondition Failed responses	number
`500`	Number of HTTP 500 Internal Server Error responses	number

`httpd`¶

Statistic ID	Description	Unit
`bulk_requests`	Number of bulk requests	number
`clients_requesting_changes`	Number of clients for continuous _changes	number
`requests`	Number of HTTP requests	number
`temporary_view_reads`	Number of temporary view reads	number
`view_reads`	Number of view reads	number

You can also access individual statistics by quoting the statistics sections and statistic ID as part of the URL path. For example, to get the request_time statistics, you can use:

GET /_stats/couchdb/request_time HTTP/1.1

This returns an entire statistics object, as with the full request, but containing only the request individual statistic. Hence, the returned structure is as follows:

{
    "couchdb" : {
        "request_time" : {
            "stddev" : 7454.305,
            "min" : 1,
            "max" : 34185,
            "current" : 34697.803,
            "mean" : 1652.276,
            "sum" : 34697.803,
            "description" : "length of a request inside CouchDB without MochiWeb"
        }
    }
}

10.2.12. `/_utils`¶

GET /_utils¶

Accesses the built-in Fauxton administration interface for CouchDB.

Response Headers:
	Location – New URI location
Status Codes:	301 Moved Permanently – Redirects to `GET /_utils/`

GET /_utils/¶

Response Headers:
	Content-Type – text/html Last-Modified – Static files modification timestamp
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully

10.2.13. `/_uuids`¶

Changed in version 2.0.0.

GET /_uuids¶

Requests one or more Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) from the CouchDB instance. The response is a JSON object providing a list of UUIDs.

Request Headers:
	Accept – application/json text/plain
Query Parameters:
	count (number) – Number of UUIDs to return. Default is `1`.
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – application/json text/plain; charset=utf-8 ETag – Response hash
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 400 Bad Request – Requested more UUIDs than is `allowed` to retrieve

Request:

GET /_uuids?count=10 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 362
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:46:25 GMT
ETag: "DGRWWQFLUDWN5MRKSLKQ425XV"
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "uuids": [
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6002413",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec600250b",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6002c41",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6003b90",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6003fca",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6004bef",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec600528f",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6005e0b",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6006158",
        "75480ca477454894678e22eec6006161"
    ]
}

The UUID type is determined by the UUID algorithm setting in the CouchDB configuration.

The UUID type may be changed at any time through the Configuration API. For example, the UUID type could be changed to random by sending this HTTP request:

PUT http://couchdb:5984/_node/nonode@nohost/_config/uuids/algorithm HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*

"random"

You can verify the change by obtaining a list of UUIDs:

{
    "uuids" : [
        "031aad7b469956cf2826fcb2a9260492",
        "6ec875e15e6b385120938df18ee8e496",
        "cff9e881516483911aa2f0e98949092d",
        "b89d37509d39dd712546f9510d4a9271",
        "2e0dbf7f6c4ad716f21938a016e4e59f"
    ]
}

10.2.14. `/favicon.ico`¶

GET /favicon.ico¶

Binary content for the favicon.ico site icon.

Response Headers:
	Content-Type – image/x-icon
Status Codes:	200 OK – Request completed successfully 404 Not Found – The requested content could not be found

10.2.1. /¶

10.2.2. /_active_tasks¶

10.2.3. /_all_dbs¶

10.2.4. /_cluster_setup¶

10.2.5. /_db_updates¶

10.2.6. /_membership¶

10.2.7. /_replicate¶

Replication Operation¶

Specifying the Source and Target Database¶

Single Replication¶

Continuous Replication¶

Canceling Continuous Replication¶

10.2.8. /_scheduler/jobs¶

10.2.9. /_scheduler/docs¶

10.2.10. /_restart¶

10.2.11. /_stats¶

couchdb¶

httpd_request_methods¶

httpd_status_codes¶

httpd¶

10.2.12. /_utils¶

10.2.13. /_uuids¶

10.2.14. /favicon.ico¶

10.2.1. `/`¶

10.2.2. `/_active_tasks`¶

10.2.3. `/_all_dbs`¶

10.2.4. `/_cluster_setup`¶

10.2.5. `/_db_updates`¶

10.2.6. `/_membership`¶

10.2.7. `/_replicate`¶

10.2.8. `/_scheduler/jobs`¶

10.2.9. `/_scheduler/docs`¶

10.2.10. `/_restart`¶

10.2.11. `/_stats`¶

`couchdb`¶

`httpd_request_methods`¶

`httpd_status_codes`¶

`httpd`¶

10.2.12. `/_utils`¶

10.2.13. `/_uuids`¶

10.2.14. `/favicon.ico`¶