Remove policy from index APIedit
Removes assigned lifecycle policies from an index or a data stream’s backing indices.
Requestedit
POST <target>/_ilm/remove
Prerequisitesedit
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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the
manage_ilmprivileges on the indices being managed to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.
Descriptionedit
For indices, the remove lifecycle policy API removes the assigned lifecycle policy and stops managing the specified index.
For data streams, the API removes any assigned lifecycle policies from the stream’s backing indices and stops managing the indices.
Path parametersedit
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<target> -
(Required, string) Comma-separated list of data streams, indices, and aliases to
target. Supports wildcards (
*). To target all data streams and indices, use*or_all.
Query parametersedit
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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.
Examplesedit
The following example removes the assigned policy from my-index-000001.
POST my-index-000001/_ilm/remove
If the request succeeds, you receive the following result:
{
"has_failures" : false,
"failed_indexes" : []
}