# Create a connector

**POST /_connector**

Connectors are Elasticsearch integrations that bring content from third-party data sources, which can be deployed on Elastic Cloud or hosted on your own infrastructure.
Elastic managed connectors (Native connectors) are a managed service on Elastic Cloud.
Self-managed connectors (Connector clients) are self-managed on your infrastructure.


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


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


## Parameters



### Body: application/json (object)

- **description** (string)

- **index_name** (string)

- **is_native** (boolean)

- **language** (string)

- **name** (string)

- **service_type** (string)



## Responses
### 200


#### Body: application/json (object)
- **result** (string)

- **id** (string)



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