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Migration

The migration APIs power Kibana's Upgrade Assistant feature.

Create an index from a source index
- POST also PUT /_create_from/{source}/{dest}
Cancel a migration reindex operation
- POST /_migration/reindex/{index}/_cancel
Get the migration reindexing status
- GET /_migration/reindex/{index}/_status

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