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Get index lifecycle management status API

Retrieves the current index lifecycle management (ILM) status.

You can start or stop ILM with the start ILM and stop ILM APIs.

Request

GET /_ilm/status

Prerequisites

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_ilm or read_ilm or both cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Query parameters

master_timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.
timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

Response body

operation_mode

(string) Current operation mode for ILM.

Possible values for operation_mode

RUNNING: ILM is running.
STOPPING: ILM is finishing sensitive actions, such as shrink, that are in progress. When these actions finish, ILM will move to STOPPED.
STOPPED: ILM is not running.

Examples

The following example gets the ILM plugin status.

GET _ilm/status

If the request succeeds, the body of the response shows the operation mode:

{
  "operation_mode": "RUNNING"
}

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