elasticsearch/docs/reference/ilm/apis/stop.asciidoc

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[[ilm-stop]]
=== Stop ILM API
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<titleabbrev>Stop ILM</titleabbrev>
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Stop the ILM plugin.

==== Request

`POST /_ilm/stop`

==== Description

This API will stop the ILM plugin. This can be used for period where 
maintenance is required and ILM should not perform any actions on any indices.
The API will return as soon as the stop request has been acknowledged but the 
plugin may not immediately stop but rather need to wait for some operations
to finish before it's stopped. Progress can be seen using the 
<<ilm-get-status, Get ILM Status>> API.

==== Request Parameters

`timeout`::
  (time units) Specifies the period of time to wait for the response. When this 
  period of time elapses, the API fails and returns an error. The default value
  is `30s`. For more information about time units, see <<time-units>>.

`master_timeout`::
  (time units) Specifies the period of time to wait for the connection with master.
  When this period of time elapses, the API fails and returns an error.
  The default value is `30s`. For more information about time units, see <<time-units>>.


==== Examples

The following example stops the ILM plugin.

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[source,js]
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PUT _ilm/my_policy
{
  "policy": {
    "phases": {
      "warm": {
        "minimum_age": "10d",
        "actions": {
          "forcemerge": {
            "max_num_segments": 1
          }
        }
      },
      "delete": {
        "minimum_age": "30d",
        "actions": {
          "delete": {}
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT my_index
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// CONSOLE
// TEST

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[source,js]
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POST _ilm/stop
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

If the request does not encounter errors, you receive the following result:

[source,js]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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// CONSOLE
// TESTRESPONSE

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[source,js]
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POST _ilm/start
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

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