Purpose

REST API might be helpful to automate some operations on Confluence. If there is a need to automate and monitor progress made on Re-indexing, this can be achieved through the suggestion below.

Solution

• Environment variables we need be aware of prior to executing the curl command.

USER_NAME=<username> ### You must be Confluence Administrator
USER_PASSWORD=<user password>
CONFLUENCE_BASEURL=<Confluence Base URL> ### FQDN and context path without the trailing slash

• Now run the curl command like the example below after replacing username, password and the Confluence Base URL

curl -u <username>:<password> -X GET "http://localhost:8090/json/reindextaskprogress.action" | python -mjson.tool

• You will ideally see an output like this

{
    "compactElapsedTime": "12:12:17",
    "count": "3020121",
    "percentageComplete": "67",
    "total": "2051956"
}

Here the compactElapsedTime represents the time since the re-indexing has started. Count represents the number items to be indexed. PercentageComplete denotes the progress made so far since. the re-indexing has been kicked off. Finally, total represents the number of items those are indexed already.