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Start Snapshot Lifecycle Management

Automatic snapshot lifecycle management is currently disabled. New backup snapshots will not be created automatically.

In order to start the snapshot lifecycle management service, follow these steps:

In order to start snapshot lifecycle management we need to go to Kibana and execute the start command.

Use Kibana

Log in to the Elastic Cloud console.
On the Elasticsearch Service panel, click the name of your deployment.

If the name of your deployment is disabled your Kibana instances might be unhealthy, in which case please contact Elastic Support. If your deployment doesn’t include Kibana, all you need to do is enable it first.
Open your deployment’s side navigation menu (placed under the Elastic logo in the upper left corner) and go to Dev Tools > Console.

Start snapshot lifecycle management:

resp = client.slm.start()
print(resp)

const response = await client.slm.start();
console.log(response);

POST _slm/start

The response will look like this:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}

Verify snapshot lifecycle management is now running:

resp = client.slm.get_status()
print(resp)

response = client.slm.get_status
puts response

const response = await client.slm.getStatus();
console.log(response);

GET _slm/status

The response will look like this:

{
  "operation_mode": "RUNNING"
}

Start snapshot lifecycle management:

resp = client.slm.start()
print(resp)

const response = await client.slm.start();
console.log(response);

POST _slm/start

The response will look like this:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}

Verify the snapshot lifecycle management is now running:

resp = client.slm.get_status()
print(resp)

response = client.slm.get_status
puts response

const response = await client.slm.getStatus();
console.log(response);

GET _slm/status

The response will look like this:

{
  "operation_mode": "RUNNING"
}

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