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Start the ILM plugin

  • POST /_ilm/start
Auth The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 6.6 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Start the index lifecycle management plugin if it is currently stopped. ILM is started automatically when the cluster is formed. Restarting ILM is necessary only when it has been stopped using the stop ILM API.

Required privileges

Cluster privileges manage_ilm

Query parameters

master_timeout union oneOf · default: 30s

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.

Values: -1 0
timeout union oneOf · default: 30s

Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

Values: -1 0

Response

application/json
acknowledged boolean required

For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.