POST /_ilm/stop

Halts all lifecycle management operations and stops the ILM plugin. This is useful when you are performing maintenance on the cluster and need to prevent ILM from performing any actions on your indices.

The API returns as soon as the stop request has been acknowledged, but the plugin might continue to run until in-progress operations complete and the plugin can be safely stopped. Use the Get ILM Status API to see if ILM is running.

You must have the manage_ilm cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see Security Privileges.

The following example stops the ILM plugin.

POST _ilm/stop

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

{
  "acknowledged": true
}