Retrieves one or more snapshot lifecycle policy definitions and information about the latest snapshot attempts.
If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_slm
cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see
Security privileges.
Returns the specified policy definition and information about the latest successful and failed attempts to create snapshots. If no policy is specified, returns all defined policies.
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<policy-id> - (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of snapshot lifecycle policy IDs.
Get the daily-snapshots policy:
GET _slm/policy/daily-snapshots?human
This request returns the following response:
{
"daily-snapshots": {
"version": 1,
"modified_date": "2099-05-06T01:30:00.000Z",
"modified_date_millis": 4081757400000,
"policy" : {
"schedule": "0 30 1 * * ?",
"name": "<daily-snap-{now/d}>",
"repository": "my_repository",
"config": {
"indices": ["data-*", "important"],
"ignore_unavailable": false,
"include_global_state": false
},
"retention": {
"expire_after": "30d",
"min_count": 5,
"max_count": 50
}
},
"stats": {
"policy": "daily-snapshots",
"snapshots_taken": 0,
"snapshots_failed": 0,
"snapshots_deleted": 0,
"snapshot_deletion_failures": 0
},
"next_execution": "2099-05-07T01:30:00.000Z",
"next_execution_millis": 4081843800000
}
}