Remove policies from an index Generally available; Added in 6.6.0

POST /{index}/_ilm/remove
Api key auth Basic auth Bearer auth

Remove the assigned lifecycle policies from an index or a data stream's backing indices. It also stops managing the indices.

Required authorization

  • Index privileges: manage_ilm

Path parameters

  • index string Required

    The name of the index to remove policy on

Responses

  • 200 application/json
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    • failed_indexes array[string] Required
    • has_failures boolean Required
POST /{index}/_ilm/remove 
POST logs-my_app-default/_ilm/remove

resp = client.ilm.remove_policy(
    index="logs-my_app-default",
)
const response = await client.ilm.removePolicy({
  index: "logs-my_app-default",
});
response = client.ilm.remove_policy(
  index: "logs-my_app-default"
)
$resp = $client->ilm()->removePolicy([
    "index" => "logs-my_app-default",
]);
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/logs-my_app-default/_ilm/remove"
client.ilm().removePolicy(r -> r
    .index("logs-my_app-default")
);
Response examples (200)
A successful response when removing a lifecycle policy from an index. 
{
  "has_failures" : false,
  "failed_indexes" : []
}