Get snapshot lifecycle policy APIedit

Retrieves one or more snapshot lifecycle policy definitions and information about the latest snapshot attempts.

Requestedit

GET _slm/policy/<policy-id>

GET _slm/policy

Prerequisitesedit

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_slm cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Descriptionedit

Returns the specified policy definition and information about the latest successful and failed attempts to create snapshots. If no policy is specified, returns all defined policies.

Path parametersedit

<policy-id>
(Optional, string) Comma-separated list of snapshot lifecycle policy IDs.

Examplesedit

Get a specific policyedit

Get the daily-snapshots policy:

response = client.slm.get_lifecycle(
  policy_id: 'daily-snapshots',
  human: true
)
puts response
GET _slm/policy/daily-snapshots?human

This request returns the following response:

{
  "daily-snapshots": {
    "version": 1,                                 
    "modified_date": "2099-05-06T01:30:00.000Z",  
    "modified_date_millis": 4081757400000,
    "policy" : {
      "schedule": "0 30 1 * * ?",
      "name": "<daily-snap-{now/d}>",
      "repository": "my_repository",
      "config": {
        "indices": ["data-*", "important"],
        "ignore_unavailable": false,
        "include_global_state": false
      },
      "retention": {
        "expire_after": "30d",
        "min_count": 5,
        "max_count": 50
      }
    },
    "stats": {
      "policy": "daily-snapshots",
      "snapshots_taken": 0,
      "snapshots_failed": 0,
      "snapshots_deleted": 0,
      "snapshot_deletion_failures": 0
    },
    "next_execution": "2099-05-07T01:30:00.000Z", 
    "next_execution_millis": 4081843800000
  }
}

The version of the snapshot policy, only the latest version is stored and incremented when the policy is updated

The last time this policy was modified.

The next time this policy will be executed.

Get all policiesedit

response = client.slm.get_lifecycle
puts response
GET _slm/policy