Upgrade Assistant API Not Responding

[ajrvester]

Hello,

I'm attempting to resolve an issue with one of our indexes before we perform an upgrade. We're currently running v6.8.8 of Elastic Cloud.

I'm following the docs here to add a default field to our index to resolve the compatibility issue. However, trying to run the API console command from the Elastic Cloud console gives me an error. If I can't invoke the API from here or in Kibana's dev console, where am I supposed to do it from?

This is the response I get, whether using a GET or POST request:

"error": "no handler found for uri [/api/upgrade_assistant/add_query_default_field/[INDEX-NAME]] and method [POST]"

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Have you tried putting it into a curl request? eg;

curl -X GET "localhost:5601/api/upgrade_assistant/add_query_default_field/myIndex" -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
  "fieldTypes": ["text", "keyword"], 
  "otherFields": ["myField.*"] 
}
'

[ajrvester]

No I hadn't tried that. Attempted the call from curl and Postman and got the same error message back. I checked the logs in Elastic Cloud as well, I don't see any errors in there.

[ajrvester]

I ended up opening a ticket. The issue was I was sending the request to Elasticsearch instead of Kibana, and using a POST request instead of a GET request. All sorted out now.