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Create or update lifecycle policy API

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Create or update lifecycle policy API

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Creates or updates lifecycle policy. See Index lifecycle for definitions of policy components.

Request

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PUT _ilm/policy/<policy_id>

Prerequisites

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  • If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_ilm cluster privilege to use this API. You must also have the manage index privilege on all indices being managed by policy. ILM performs operations as the user who last updated the policy. ILM only has the roles assigned to the user at the time of the last policy update.

Description

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Creates a lifecycle policy. If the specified policy exists, the policy is replaced and the policy version is incremented.

Only the latest version of the policy is stored, you cannot revert to previous versions.

Path parameters

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<policy_id>
(Required, string) Identifier for the policy.

Query parameters

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master_timeout
(Optional, time units) 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. Defaults to 30s.
timeout
(Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

Examples

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The following example creates a new policy named my_policy. In addition, you can use the _meta parameter to add arbitrary metadata to the policy, the _meta parameter is optional and not automatically generated or used by Elasticsearch. To unset _meta, replace the policy without specifying one. To check the _meta, you can use the Get lifecycle policy API.

PUT _ilm/policy/my_policy
{
  "policy": {
    "_meta": {
      "description": "used for nginx log",
      "project": {
        "name": "myProject",
        "department": "myDepartment"
      }
    },
    "phases": {
      "warm": {
        "min_age": "10d",
        "actions": {
          "forcemerge": {
            "max_num_segments": 1
          }
        }
      },
      "delete": {
        "min_age": "30d",
        "actions": {
          "delete": {}
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

If the request succeeds, you receive the following result:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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