elasticsearch/docs/reference/dlm/apis/dlm-api.asciidoc

[[data-lifecycle-management-api]]
== Data Lifecycle Management APIs

You use the following APIs to configure the data lifecycle management for data streams
and to retrieve lifecycle information for backing indices.

[discrete]
[[dlm-api-management-endpoint]]
=== Operation management APIs

* <<dlm-explain-lifecycle,Explain Lifecycle API>>

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