[role="xpack"]
[testenv="basic"]
[[node-lifecycle-api]]
== Node lifecycle APIs

NOTE: {cloud-only}

You use the shutdown APIs to prepare nodes for temporary or permanent shutdown, monitor the shutdown status, and enable a previously shut-down node to resume normal operations.

[discrete]
=== Node shutdown APIs

* <<put-shutdown,Put shutdown API>>
* <<get-shutdown,Get shutdown API>>
* <<delete-shutdown,Delete shutdown API>>

include::shutdown-put.asciidoc[]
include::shutdown-get.asciidoc[]
include::shutdown-delete.asciidoc[]
