[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api]]
=== Check in connector sync job API
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<titleabbrev>Check in connector sync job</titleabbrev>
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Checks in a connector sync job (updates `last_seen` to the current time).

To get started with Connector APIs, check out the {enterprise-search-ref}/connectors-tutorial-api.html[tutorial^].

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}
`PUT _connector/_sync_job/<connector_sync_job_id>/_check_in/`

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To sync data using self-managed connectors, you need to deploy the {enterprise-search-ref}/build-connector.html[Elastic connector service] on your own infrastructure. This service runs automatically on Elastic Cloud for native connectors.
* The `connector_sync_job_id` parameter should reference an existing connector sync job.

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Checks in a connector sync job and sets `last_seen` to the time right before updating it in the internal index.

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<connector_sync_job_id>`::
(Required, string)

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`200`::
Connector sync job was successfully checked in.

`404`::
No connector sync job matching `connector_sync_job_id` could be found.

[[check-in-connector-sync-job-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example checks in the connector sync job `my-connector-sync-job`:

[source,console]
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PUT _connector/_sync_job/my-connector-sync-job/_check_in
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// TEST[skip:there's no way to clean up after creating a connector sync job, as we don't know the id ahead of time. Therefore, skip this test.]