Close an index
A closed index is blocked for read or write operations and does not allow all operations that opened indices allow. It is not possible to index documents or to search for documents in a closed index. Closed indices do not have to maintain internal data structures for indexing or searching documents, which results in a smaller overhead on the cluster.
When opening or closing an index, the master node is responsible for restarting the index shards to reflect the new state of the index. The shards will then go through the normal recovery process. The data of opened and closed indices is automatically replicated by the cluster to ensure that enough shard copies are safely kept around at all times.
You can open and close multiple indices.
An error is thrown if the request explicitly refers to a missing index.
This behaviour can be turned off using the ignore_unavailable=true parameter.
By default, you must explicitly name the indices you are opening or closing.
To open or close indices with _all, *, or other wildcard expressions, change theaction.destructive_requires_name setting to false. This setting can also be changed with the cluster update settings API.
Closed indices consume a significant amount of disk-space which can cause problems in managed environments.
Closing indices can be turned off with the cluster settings API by setting cluster.indices.close.enable to false.
Path parameters
-
Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of index names used to limit the request.
Query parameters
-
allow_no_indices boolean
If
false, the request returns an error if any wildcard expression, index alias, or_allvalue targets only missing or closed indices. This behavior applies even if the request targets other open indices. -
expand_wildcards string | array[string]
Type of index that wildcard patterns can match. If the request can target data streams, this argument determines whether wildcard expressions match hidden data streams. Supports comma-separated values, such as
open,hidden. Valid values are:all,open,closed,hidden,none. -
master_timeout string
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.
-
timeout string
Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
-
wait_for_active_shards number | string
The number of shard copies that must be active before proceeding with the operation. Set to
allor any positive integer up to the total number of shards in the index (number_of_replicas+1).
curl \
-X POST http://api.example.com/{index}/_close{
"acknowledged": true,
"shards_acknowledged": true,
"indices": {
"my-index-000001": {
"closed": true
}
}
}