Get index lifecycle management status APIedit

Retrieves the current index lifecycle management (ILM) status.

Requestedit

GET /_ilm/status

Prerequisitesedit

  • If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_ilm or read_ilm or both cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Descriptionedit

Returns the status of the ILM plugin. The operation_mode in the response shows one of three states: STARTED, STOPPING, or STOPPED. You can start or stop ILM with the start ILM and stop ILM APIs.

Query parametersedit

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 gets the ILM plugin status.

GET _ilm/status

If the request succeeds, the body of the response shows the operation mode:

{
  "operation_mode": "RUNNING"
}