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Create or update autoscaling policy APIedit
Autoscaling is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Direct use is not supported.
Creates or updates an autoscaling policy.
Requestedit
PUT /_autoscaling/policy/<name>
{
"roles": [],
"deciders": {
"fixed": {
}
}
}
Prerequisitesedit
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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have
manage_autoscalingcluster privileges. For more information, see Security privileges.
Descriptionedit
This API puts an autoscaling policy with the provided name. See Autoscaling Deciders for available deciders.
Examplesedit
This example puts an autoscaling policy named my_autoscaling_policy using the
fixed autoscaling decider, applying to the set of nodes having (only) the
"data_hot" role.
PUT /_autoscaling/policy/my_autoscaling_policy
{
"roles" : [ "data_hot" ],
"deciders": {
"fixed": {
}
}
}
The API returns the following result:
{
"acknowledged": true
}