Snapshot restore -- How to check how long the restore took?

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I was able to restore a snapshot recently.
Is there a way for Elastic / Kibana to show how long the restore took (Full time)? There does not appear to be a definitive way.

I seemed to find two ways to find this data:

  1. Use this URL path for an api call
    https://<host>/search/_snapshot/<snapshot repository>/<specific Snapshot>/_status? pretty
    I see this data in the payload. Its not clear what snapshot[1].stats.time_in_millis is ? Is this the total time it took the restore to run? If so its not accurate:
    {
  "snapshots": [
    {
      "snapshot": <snapshot name>,
      "repository": <snapshot repository>,
      "uuid": "dBCFEdE_RwCf9kg1234567",
      "state": "SUCCESS",
      "include_global_state": true,
      "shards_stats": {
        "initializing": 0,
        "started": 0,
        "finalizing": 0,
        "done": 551,
        "failed": 0,
        "total": 551
      },
      "stats": {
        "incremental": {
          "file_count": 587,
          "size_in_bytes": 92046051
        },
        "total": {
          "file_count": 10662,
          "size_in_bytes": 483829905011
        },
        "start_time_in_millis": 1727123399856,
        "time_in_millis": 4602
      },
  2. If I go into Kibana. I can go to Hamburger Menu > Stack Management > Snapshot and Restore > Restore Status from here I can see all the indexes that were restored. There does not appear to be a place I can check how long all of the restore took. But I can surmise how long it took by sorting the Last activity column. Then I can go to the first page and last page to determine how long it took.

Are these the only two ways? I really don't want to have to use Kibana to look up this info. Mainly because our snapshots back up ALL indexes (*), which means I cannot run Kibana while I do the restore, I have to turn it off.

I need a way to check if the restore completed and how long it took from the API. Is there a way to check this?

2

Hi @Dave_Houser

Have you tried it?

3

Thanks for the reply. Is there a specific part of this guide you are referring for me to try? Because my post details how I am checking the status of a specific snapshot with the API. It does give a bunch of stats but does not detail how long the snapshot took to restore. Can you be more specific what I should be looking at in the guide?