Forcemerge

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action: forcemerge
description: "Perform a forceMerge on selected indices to 'max_num_segments' per shard"
options:
  max_num_segments:
  delay:
  timeout_override:
  continue_if_exception: False
  disable_action: False
filters:
- filtertype: ...

Empty values and commented lines will result in the default value, if any, being selected. If a setting is set, but not used by a given action, it will be ignored.

This action performs a forceMerge on the selected indices, merging them to max_num_segments per shard, with an optional pause between each merge of delay seconds to allow the cluster to quiesce.

Required settings

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Optional settings

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See an example of this action in an actionfile here.