Get snapshot lifecycle policy API

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Get snapshot lifecycle policy API

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Retrieves one or more snapshot lifecycle policy definitions and information about the latest snapshot attempts.

Request

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GET _slm/policy/<policy-id>

GET _slm/policy

Prerequisites

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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_slm cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Description

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Returns the specified policy definition and information about the latest successful and failed attempts to create snapshots. If no policy is specified, returns all defined policies.

Path parameters

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<policy-id>: (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of snapshot lifecycle policy IDs.

Examples

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Get a specific policy

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Get the daily-snapshots policy:

resp = client.slm.get_lifecycle(
    policy_id="daily-snapshots",
    human=True,
)
print(resp)

response = client.slm.get_lifecycle(
  policy_id: 'daily-snapshots',
  human: true
)
puts response

const response = await client.slm.getLifecycle({
  policy_id: "daily-snapshots",
  human: "true",
});
console.log(response);

GET _slm/policy/daily-snapshots?human

This request returns the following response:

{
  "daily-snapshots": {
    "version": 1,                                 
    "modified_date": "2099-05-06T01:30:00.000Z",  
    "modified_date_millis": 4081757400000,
    "policy" : {
      "schedule": "0 30 1 * * ?",
      "name": "<daily-snap-{now/d}>",
      "repository": "my_repository",
      "config": {
        "indices": ["data-*", "important"],
        "ignore_unavailable": false,
        "include_global_state": false
      },
      "retention": {
        "expire_after": "30d",
        "min_count": 5,
        "max_count": 50
      }
    },
    "stats": {
      "policy": "daily-snapshots",
      "snapshots_taken": 0,
      "snapshots_failed": 0,
      "snapshots_deleted": 0,
      "snapshot_deletion_failures": 0
    },
    "next_execution": "2099-05-07T01:30:00.000Z", 
    "next_execution_millis": 4081843800000
  }
}

	The version of the snapshot policy, only the latest version is stored and incremented when the policy is updated
	The last time this policy was modified.
	The next time this policy will be executed.

Get all policies

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

response = client.slm.get_lifecycle
puts response

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

GET _slm/policy

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