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Curator

Overview
Curator and index lifecycle management
About
Installation
Running Curator
Configuration
Actions
- Alias
- Allocation
- Close
- Cluster Routing
- Cold2Frozen
- Create Index
- Delete Indices
- Delete Snapshots
- Forcemerge
- Index Settings
- open
- Reindex
- Replicas
- Restore
- Rollover
- Shrink
- Snapshot
Options
Filters
- filtertype
- age
- alias
- allocated
- closed
- count
- empty
- forcemerged
- kibana
- none
- opened
- pattern
- period
- space
- state
Filter Elements
- aliases
- allocation_type
- count
- date_from
- date_from_format
- date_to
- date_to_format
- direction
- disk_space
- epoch
- exclude
- field
- intersect
- key
- kind
- max_num_segments
- pattern
- period_type
- range_from
- range_to
- reverse
- source
- state
- stats_result
- timestring
- threshold_behavior
- unit
- unit_count
- unit_count_pattern
- use_age
- value
- week_starts_on
Examples
- alias
- allocation
- close
- cluster_routing
- create_index
- delete_indices
- delete_snapshots
- forcemerge
- index_settings
- open
- reindex
- replicas
- restore
- rollover
- shrink
- snapshot
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Actions are the tasks which Curator can perform on your indices. Snapshots, once created, can only be deleted.

Alias
Allocation
Close
Cluster Routing
Cold2Frozen
Create Index
Delete Indices
Delete Snapshots
forceMerge
Index Settings
Open
Reindex
Replicas
Restore
Rollover
Shrink
Snapshot

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