# Verify a snapshot repository

**POST /_snapshot/{repository}/_verify**

Check for common misconfigurations in a snapshot repository.

## Required authorization

* Cluster privileges: `manage`


[External documentation](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/tools/snapshot-and-restore/self-managed#snapshots-repository-verification)

## Servers
- http://api.example.com: http://api.example.com ()


## Authentication methods
- Api key auth
- Basic auth
- Bearer auth


## Parameters

### Path parameters
- **repository** (string)
  The name of the snapshot repository to verify.

### Query parameters
- **master_timeout** (string)
  The period to wait for the master node.
  If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
  To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to `-1`.
- **timeout** (string)
  The period to wait for a response from all relevant nodes in the cluster after updating the cluster metadata.
  If no response is received before the timeout expires, the cluster metadata update still applies but the response will indicate that it was not completely acknowledged.
  To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to `-1`.


## Responses
### 200


#### Body: application/json (object)
- **nodes** (object)
  Information about the nodes connected to the snapshot repository.
  The key is the ID of the node.


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