Start snapshot lifecycle management Added in 7.6.0
Snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) starts automatically when a cluster is formed. Manually starting SLM is necessary only if it has been stopped using the stop SLM API.
Query parameters
-
master_timeout string
The 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. To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to
-1
. -
timeout string
The period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to
-1
.
POST
/_slm/start
curl \
-X POST http://api.example.com/_slm/start
Response examples (200)
{
"acknowledged": true
}