Create or update autoscaling policy API

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Create or update autoscaling policy API

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This feature is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Direct use is not supported.

Creates or updates an autoscaling policy.

Request

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PUT /_autoscaling/policy/<name>
{
  "roles": [],
  "deciders": {
    "fixed": {
    }
  }
}

Prerequisites

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Description

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This API puts an autoscaling policy with the provided name. See Autoscaling Deciders for available deciders.

Examples

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This example puts an autoscaling policy named my_autoscaling_policy using the fixed autoscaling decider, applying to the set of nodes having (only) the "data_hot" role.

PUT /_autoscaling/policy/my_autoscaling_policy
{
  "roles" : [ "data_hot" ],
  "deciders": {
    "fixed": {
    }
  }
}

The API returns the following result:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}