Create or update autoscaling policy APIedit

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.

Requestedit

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

Prerequisitesedit

Descriptionedit

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

Examplesedit

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
}