Get data stream lifecycles

  • GET /_data_stream/{name}/_lifecycle
Auth

Get the data stream lifecycle configuration of one or more data streams.

About data stream lifecycle

Required authorization

Index privileges manage_data_stream_lifecycle

Path parameters

name union string | string[] required

Comma-separated list of data streams to limit the request. Supports wildcards (*). To target all data streams, omit this parameter or use * or _all.

Query parameters

expand_wildcards union oneOf · default: open

Type of data stream that wildcard patterns can match. Supports comma-separated values, such as open,hidden.

Supported values include:

  • all: Match any data stream or index, including hidden ones.
  • open: Match open, non-hidden indices. Also matches any non-hidden data stream.
  • closed: Match closed, non-hidden indices. Also matches any non-hidden data stream. Data streams cannot be closed.
  • hidden: Match hidden data streams and hidden indices. Must be combined with open, closed, or both.
  • none: Wildcard expressions are not accepted.
Values: all open closed hidden none
include_defaults boolean · default: false

If true, return all default settings in the response.

master_timeout string · default: 30s

Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

Response

application/json
data_streams object[] required
name string required
lifecycle object
data_retention string

If defined, every document added to this data stream will be stored at least for this time frame. Any time after this duration the document could be deleted. When empty, every document in this data stream will be stored indefinitely.

effective_retention string

The least amount of time data should be kept by elasticsearch.

retention_determined_by enum

Configuration source that can influence the retention of a data stream.

Values: data_stream_configuration default_global_retention max_global_retention default_failures_retention
downsampling object[]

The list of downsampling rounds to execute as part of this downsampling configuration

after string required

The duration since rollover when this downsampling round should execute

fixed_interval string required

The downsample interval.

downsampling_method enum

The method used to downsample the data. There are two options aggregate and last_value. It requires downsampling to be defined. Defaults to aggregate.

Values: aggregate last_value
enabled boolean · default: true

If defined, it turns data stream lifecycle on/off (true/false) for this data stream. A data stream lifecycle that's disabled (enabled: false) will have no effect on the data stream.

rollover object

The conditions which will trigger the rollover of a backing index as configured by the cluster setting cluster.lifecycle.default.rollover. This property is an implementation detail and it will only be retrieved when the query param include_defaults is set to true. The contents of this field are subject to change.

min_age string
max_age string
min_docs number
max_docs number
min_size number | string
max_size number | string
min_primary_shard_size number | string
max_primary_shard_size number | string
min_primary_shard_docs number
max_primary_shard_docs number
global_retention object required
max_retention string
default_retention string