Elastic

Elastic Ilm API

You can use the index lifecycle management (ILM) APIs to create and manage policies to automatically manage the lifecycle of your Elasticsearch indices.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 12

GET /_ilm/policy/{policy} Get lifecycle policies #
PUT /_ilm/policy/{policy} Create or update a lifecycle policy #
DELETE /_ilm/policy/{policy} Delete a lifecycle policy #
GET /{index}/_ilm/explain Explain the lifecycle state #
GET /_ilm/policy Get lifecycle policies #
GET /_ilm/status Get the ILM status #
POST /_ilm/migrate_to_data_tiers Migrate to data tiers routing #
POST /_ilm/move/{index} Move to a lifecycle step #
POST /{index}/_ilm/remove Remove policies from an index #
POST /{index}/_ilm/retry Retry a policy #
POST /_ilm/start Start the ILM plugin #
POST /_ilm/stop Stop the ILM plugin #

Documentation

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https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch
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Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/cloud

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic/refs/heads/main/openapi/elastic-ilm-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic/refs/heads/main/json-schema/elastic-saved-object-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

elastic-ilm-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elasticsearch Ilm API
  description: 'Elasticsearch provides REST APIs that are used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features.

    ## Documentation source and versions

    This documentation is derived from the main branch of the elasticsearch-specification repository. It is provided under license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

    This documentation contains work-in-progress information for future Elastic Stack releases.'
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/blob/main/LICENSE
  version: ''
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:


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