Remove policies from an index

Auth

Remove the assigned lifecycle policies from an index or a data stream's backing indices. It also stops managing the indices.

Required privileges

application/json

Examples

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

POST logs-my_app-default/_ilm/remove

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.ilm.removePolicy({
  index: "logs-my_app-default",
});

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.ilm.remove_policy(
    index="logs-my_app-default",
)

curl Shell

curl -X POST "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/logs-my_app-default/_ilm/remove" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.ilm().removePolicy(r -> r
    .index("logs-my_app-default")
);

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.IndexLifecycleManagement.RemovePolicyAsync(index: "logs-my_app-default");

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->ilm()->removePolicy([
    "index" => "logs-my_app-default",
]);

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.ilm.remove_policy(
  index: "logs-my_app-default"
)

Response

A successful response when removing a lifecycle policy from an index.

{
  "has_failures" : false,
  "failed_indexes" : []
}