AuthThe Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.AvailabilityGenerally available since 7.6This 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.
Stop all snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) operations and the SLM plugin.
This API is useful when you are performing maintenance on a cluster and need to prevent SLM from performing any actions on your data streams or indices.
Stopping SLM does not stop any snapshots that are in progress.
You can manually trigger snapshots with the run snapshot lifecycle policy API even if SLM is stopped.
The API returns a response as soon as the request is acknowledged, but the plugin might continue to run until in-progress operations complete and it can be safely stopped.
Use the get snapshot lifecycle management status API to see if SLM is running.
The 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.
To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to -1.
timeoutstring · default: 30s
The period to wait for a response.
If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to -1.