---
title: "Start Pipeline"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/pipelines/{name}/start"
tags: ["v2", "pipelines"]
---

# Start Pipeline

`POST /api/v2/pipelines/{name}/start`

Starts a pipeline, retrying on 409 conflicts received from the K8s API server.

## Path parameters

- `name` string, required — Pipeline name

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- PipelineResponse — Response model containing the details of a pipeline.
  - `name` string, required
  - `active` boolean, required
  - `config` object, required
  - `status` 'started' | 'stopped' | 'error' | 'creating' | 'updating' | 'deleting' | 'starting' | 'stopping' | 'resetting' | 'pending' | 'unknown' — Pipeline status.
  - `status_changed_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `errors` RedisDiApiModelsErrorsError[]
    - `code` 'validation_error' | 'job_validation_error' | 'request_validation_error' | 'cdc_validation_error' | 'pipeline_error' | 'pipeline_pending' | 'pipeline_component_error' | 'operation_error', required — Error codes
    - `message` string, required
    - `remediation` string, nullable
    - `details` object
  - `components` PipelineComponentResponse[]
    - `name` string, required
    - `type` 'debezium-collector' | 'collector-api' | 'stream-processor' | 'metrics-exporter' | 'flink-processor-jobmanager' | 'flink-processor-taskmanager' | 'flink-processor' | 'riotx-collector' | 'unknown', required — Component types for RDI pipeline components.
    - `version` string, required
    - `status` 'started' | 'stopped' | 'error' | 'creating' | 'updating' | 'deleting' | 'starting' | 'stopping' | 'resetting' | 'pending' | 'unknown' — Pipeline status.
    - `replicas` integer
    - `errors` string[], nullable
    - `metric_collections` string[], nullable
  - `current` boolean

## Other responses

- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Not Found

## Changes

- **2026-07-16** `e381b64b5ffc` — 1 warning, 2 info
  - added the new `flink-processor` enum value to the `components/items/type` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the optional property `components/items/replicas` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `status_changed_at` to the response with the `200` status
- **2026-04-29** `d5de67e6bd60` — 8 warning, 4 info
  - added the new `cdc_validation_error` enum value to the `errors/anyOf[subschema #1]/items/code` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `cdc_validation_error` enum value to the `errors/anyOf[subschema #1]/items/code` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `cdc_validation_error` enum value to the `errors/anyOf[subschema #1]/items/code` response property for the response status `404`
  - added the new `cdc_validation_error` enum value to the `errors/items/code` response property for the response status `200`
  - …8 more
- **2026-02-03** `1cfaddb924d7` — 6 info
  - the `components` response's property default value `` was removed for the status `200`
  - the `details` response's property default value `{}` was removed for the status `200`
  - the `details` response's property default value `{}` was removed for the status `401`
  - the `details` response's property default value `{}` was removed for the status `403`
  - …2 more
- **2026-02-02** `f0a3d26cc0c6` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- …earlier changes not shown

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/redis/apis/redis-data-integration-api/changes/api/v2/pipelines/:name/start/post.md)

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