Remove policy from index API
Removes assigned lifecycle policies from an index or a data stream’s backing indices.
Request
POST <target>/_ilm/remove
Prerequisites
- If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the
manage_ilmprivileges on the indices being managed to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.
Description
For indices, the remove lifecycle policy API removes the assigned lifecycle policy and stops managing the specified index.
For data streams, the API removes any assigned lifecycle policies from the stream’s backing indices and stops managing the indices.
Path parameters
-
<target> - (Required, string) Comma-separated list of data streams, indices, and aliases to target. Supports wildcards (
*). To target all data streams and indices, use*or_all.
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.
Examples
The following example removes the assigned policy from my-index-000001.
POST my-index-000001/_ilm/remove
If the request succeeds, you receive the following result:
{
"has_failures" : false,
"failed_indexes" : []
}
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