Get index lifecycle management status API

Retrieves the current index lifecycle management (ILM) status.

You can start or stop ILM with the start ILM and stop ILM APIs.

GET /_ilm/status

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_ilm or read_ilm or both cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

master_timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for the master node. If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s. Can also be set to -1 to indicate that the request should never timeout.
timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response from all relevant nodes in the cluster after updating the cluster metadata. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the cluster metadata update still applies but the response will indicate that it was not completely acknowledged. Defaults to 30s. Can also be set to -1 to indicate that the request should never timeout.

operation_mode

(string) Current operation mode for ILM.

Possible values for operation_mode

RUNNING: ILM is running.
STOPPING: ILM is finishing sensitive actions, such as shrink, that are in progress. When these actions finish, ILM will move to STOPPED.
STOPPED: ILM is not running.

The following example gets the ILM plugin status.

resp = client.ilm.get_status()
print(resp)

response = client.ilm.get_status
puts response

const response = await client.ilm.getStatus();
console.log(response);

GET _ilm/status

If the request succeeds, the body of the response shows the operation mode:

{
  "operation_mode": "RUNNING"
}