Index lifecycle management APIs

Index lifecycle management APIs

You use the following APIs to set up policies to automatically manage the index lifecycle. For more information about index lifecycle management (ILM), see ILM: Manage the index lifecycle.

Policy management APIs

• Create lifecycle policy
• Get lifecycle policy
• Delete lifecycle policy

Index management APIs

• Move index to step
• Retry policy on indices
• Remove policy from index

Operation management APIs

• Get ILM operation mode
• Start ILM
• Stop ILM
• Explain API

• Migrate to data tiers routing API

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