Indexers - Get Status

Service:: Search Service

API Version:: 2025-09-01

Returns the current status and execution history of an indexer.

GET {endpoint}/indexers('{indexerName}')/search.status?api-version=2025-09-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
endpoint	path	True	string	The endpoint URL of the search service.
indexerName	path	True	string	The name of the indexer for which to retrieve status.
api-version	query	True	string	Client Api Version.

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
x-ms-client-request-id		string (uuid)	The tracking ID sent with the request to help with debugging.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	SearchIndexerStatus
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response.

Examples

SearchServiceGetIndexerStatus

Sample request

HTTP

GET https://stableexampleservice.search.windows.net/indexers('myindexer')/search.status?api-version=2025-09-01

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "name": "myindexer",
  "status": "running",
  "lastResult": {
    "status": "success",
    "startTime": "2014-11-26T03:37:18.853Z",
    "endTime": "2014-11-26T03:37:19.012Z",
    "itemsProcessed": 11,
    "itemsFailed": 0,
    "errors": [],
    "warnings": []
  },
  "executionHistory": [
    {
      "status": "success",
      "startTime": "2014-11-26T03:37:18.853Z",
      "endTime": "2014-11-26T03:37:19.012Z",
      "itemsProcessed": 11,
      "itemsFailed": 0,
      "errors": [],
      "warnings": []
    },
    {
      "status": "transientFailure",
      "startTime": "2014-11-26T03:28:10.125Z",
      "endTime": "2014-11-26T03:28:12.007Z",
      "itemsProcessed": 1,
      "itemsFailed": 2,
      "errors": [
        {
          "key": "",
          "statusCode": 400,
          "errorMessage": "Document key cannot be missing or empty."
        },
        {
          "key": "document id 1",
          "statusCode": 400,
          "name": "DocumentExtraction.AzureBlob.MyDataSource",
          "errorMessage": "Could not read the value of column 'foo' at index '0'.",
          "details": "The file could not be parsed.",
          "documentationLink": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2049388"
        }
      ],
      "warnings": [
        {
          "key": "document id",
          "message": "A warning doesn't stop indexing, and is intended to inform you of certain interesting situations, like when a blob indexer truncates the amount of text extracted from a blob."
        },
        {
          "key": "document id 2",
          "name": "Enrichment.LanguageDetectionSkill.#4",
          "message": "Document was truncated to 50000 characters.",
          "details": "The skill did something that didn't break anything, nonetheless something we didn't expect happened, so it might be worth double checking.",
          "documentationLink": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099692"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "limits": {
    "maxRunTime": "PT22H",
    "maxDocumentExtractionSize": 256000000,
    "maxDocumentContentCharactersToExtract": 4000000
  }
}

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
IndexerExecutionResult	Represents the result of an individual indexer execution.
IndexerExecutionStatus	Represents the status of an individual indexer execution.
IndexerStatus	Represents the overall indexer status.
SearchIndexerError	Represents an item- or document-level indexing error.
SearchIndexerLimits
SearchIndexerStatus	Represents the current status and execution history of an indexer.
SearchIndexerWarning	Represents an item-level warning.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

IndexerExecutionResult

Object

Represents the result of an individual indexer execution.

Name	Type	Description
endTime	string (date-time)	The end time of this indexer execution, if the execution has already completed.
errorMessage	string	The error message indicating the top-level error, if any.
errors	SearchIndexerError[]	The item-level indexing errors.
finalTrackingState	string	Change tracking state with which an indexer execution finished.
initialTrackingState	string	Change tracking state with which an indexer execution started.
itemsFailed	integer (int32)	The number of items that failed to be indexed during this indexer execution.
itemsProcessed	integer (int32)	The number of items that were processed during this indexer execution. This includes both successfully processed items and items where indexing was attempted but failed.
startTime	string (date-time)	The start time of this indexer execution.
status	IndexerExecutionStatus	The outcome of this indexer execution.
warnings	SearchIndexerWarning[]	The item-level indexing warnings.

IndexerExecutionStatus

Enumeration

Represents the status of an individual indexer execution.

Value	Description
transientFailure	An indexer invocation has failed, but the failure may be transient. Indexer invocations will continue per schedule.
success	Indexer execution completed successfully.
inProgress	Indexer execution is in progress.
reset	Indexer has been reset.

IndexerStatus

Enumeration

Represents the overall indexer status.

Value	Description
unknown	Indicates that the indexer is in an unknown state.
error	Indicates that the indexer experienced an error that cannot be corrected without human intervention.
running	Indicates that the indexer is running normally.

SearchIndexerError

Object

Represents an item- or document-level indexing error.

Name	Type	Description
details	string	Additional, verbose details about the error to assist in debugging the indexer. This may not be always available.
documentationLink	string	A link to a troubleshooting guide for these classes of errors. This may not be always available.
errorMessage	string	The message describing the error that occurred while processing the item.
key	string	The key of the item for which indexing failed.
name	string	The name of the source at which the error originated. For example, this could refer to a particular skill in the attached skillset. This may not be always available.
statusCode	integer (int32)	The status code indicating why the indexing operation failed. Possible values include: 400 for a malformed input document, 404 for document not found, 409 for a version conflict, 422 when the index is temporarily unavailable, or 503 for when the service is too busy.

SearchIndexerLimits

Object

Name	Type	Description
maxDocumentContentCharactersToExtract	number (int64)	The maximum number of characters that will be extracted from a document picked up for indexing.
maxDocumentExtractionSize	number (int64)	The maximum size of a document, in bytes, which will be considered valid for indexing.
maxRunTime	string (duration)	The maximum duration that the indexer is permitted to run for one execution.

SearchIndexerStatus

Object

Represents the current status and execution history of an indexer.

Name	Type	Description
executionHistory	IndexerExecutionResult[]	History of the recent indexer executions, sorted in reverse chronological order.
lastResult	IndexerExecutionResult	The result of the most recent or an in-progress indexer execution.
limits	SearchIndexerLimits	The execution limits for the indexer.
name	string	The name of the indexer.
status	IndexerStatus	Overall indexer status.

SearchIndexerWarning

Object

Represents an item-level warning.

Name	Type	Description
details	string	Additional, verbose details about the warning to assist in debugging the indexer. This may not be always available.
documentationLink	string	A link to a troubleshooting guide for these classes of warnings. This may not be always available.
key	string	The key of the item which generated a warning.
message	string	The message describing the warning that occurred while processing the item.
name	string	The name of the source at which the warning originated. For example, this could refer to a particular skill in the attached skillset. This may not be always available.

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Indexers - Get Status

URI Parameters

Request Header

Responses

Examples

SearchServiceGetIndexerStatus

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

ErrorAdditionalInfo

ErrorDetail

ErrorResponse

IndexerExecutionResult

IndexerExecutionStatus

IndexerStatus

SearchIndexerError

SearchIndexerLimits

SearchIndexerStatus

SearchIndexerWarning