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Upgradeedit
The upgrade API allows to upgrade one or more indices to the latest format through an API. The upgrade process converts any segments written with previous formats.
Start an upgradeedit
$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_upgrade'
Upgrading is an I/O intensive operation, and is limited to processing a single shard per node at a time. It also is not allowed to run at the same time as optimize.
Request Parametersedit
The upgrade API accepts the following request parameters:
|
|
Should the request wait for the upgrade to complete. Defaults
to |
Check upgrade statusedit
Use a GET request to monitor how much of an index is upgraded. This
can also be used prior to starting an upgrade to identify which indices
you want to upgrade at the same time.
curl 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_upgrade?pretty&human'
{
"twitter": {
"size": "21gb",
"size_in_bytes": "21000000000",
"size_to_upgrade": "10gb",
"size_to_upgrade_in_bytes": "10000000000"
}
}