Delete shutdown APIedit
This feature is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Direct use is not supported.
Cancels shutdown preparations or clears a shutdown request so a node can resume normal operations.
Requestedit
DELETE _nodes/<node-id>/shutdown
Prerequisitesedit
-
If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the
managecluster privilege to use this API. - If the operator privileges feature is enabled, you must be an operator to use this API.
Descriptionedit
Enables a node to resume normal operations following a put shutdown request. You must explicitly clear the shutdown request when a node rejoins the cluster, or when a node has permanently left the cluster. Shutdown requests are never removed automatically by Elasticsearch.
Path parametersedit
-
<node-id> - (Optional, string) The ID of a node that you prepared for shut down.
Query parametersedit
-
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.
Examplesedit
Prepare a node to be restarted:
PUT /_nodes/USpTGYaBSIKbgSUJR2Z9lg/shutdown
{
"type": "restart",
"reason": "Demonstrating how the node shutdown API works"
}
Cancel the shutdown preparations or clear the shutdown request after restarting:
DELETE /_nodes/USpTGYaBSIKbgSUJR2Z9lg/shutdown
Which returns the following response:
{
"acknowledged": true
}