There are a handful of examples in the ILM documentation that could result in
rolling over indices more quickly than we might normally recommend,
contributing to over-sharding in cases where the examples are copied without
modification. This change makes some numbers bigger to try and avoid this.
This extra scenario describes the case where an updated
policy increases the current phase's `min_age`. Now, the
docs explicitly describe this scenario as to what is
expected -- old min_age is used.
Closes#35356.
Leaving `index.lifecycle.indexing_complete` in place when removing the
lifecycle policy from an index can cause confusion, as if a new policy
is associated with the policy, rollover will be silently skipped.
Removing that setting when removing the policy from an index makes
associating a new policy with the index more involved, but allows ILM to
fail loudly, rather than silently skipping operations which the user may
assume are being performed.
* Adjust order of checks in WaitForRolloverReadyStep
This allows ILM to error out properly for indices that have a valid
alias, but are not the write index, while still handling
`indexing_complete` on old-style aliases and rollover (that is, those
which only point to a single index at a time with no explicit write
index)
Adds a setting that indicates that an index is done indexing, set by ILM
when the Rollover action completes. This indicates that the Rollover
action should be skipped in any future invocations, as long as the index
is no longer the write index for its alias.
This enables 1) an index with a policy that involves the Rollover action
to have the policy removed and switched to another one without use of
the move-to-step API, and 2) integrations with Beats and CCR.
This commit documents how Index Lifecycle Management
interacts with snapshot/restore, and documents a workaround
for situations in which ILM should not immediately resume
managing an index after it is restored.
This adds an example to drive home the semantics of `min_age` and explain
how actions from one phase must complete before `min_age` is even tested
closes#34020.
RolloverStep previously had a name of "attempt_rollover", which was
inconsistent with all other step names due it its use of an underscore
instead of a dash.
RolloverAction will now periodically check the rollover conditions using
the Rollover API with the dry_run option as an AsyncWaitStep, then run
the rollover itself by calling the Rollover API with no conditions,
which will always roll over, as an AsyncActionStep. This will resolve
race condition issues in policies using RolloverAction.
The docs are not resilient to timing issues where the ILM metadata is not set on newly
created indices, so we shouldn't be so strict on the returned response
* [ILM] Add documentation for error handling in ILM
This adds some initial documentation for error handling and retrying failed
steps for index lifecycle management
* [DOCS] ILM API Ref edits
* [DOCS] Fixed endpoint for DELETE policy.
* [DOCS] Removed comparison to setting index.lifecycle.name to null.
* [DOCS] Fixed xrefs to explain API.
The remove-ilm-from-index API was using the DELETE http method
to signify that something is being removed. Although, metadata
about ILM for the index is being deleted, no entity/resource
is being deleted during this operation. POST is more in line with
what this API is actually doing, it is modifying the metadata for
an index. As part of this change, `remove` is also appended to the path
to be more explicit about its actions.
This commit removes the Joda time usage from ILM and the HLRC components of ILM.
It also fixes an issue where using the `?human=true` flag could have caused the
parser not to work. These millisecond fields now follow the standard we use
elsewhere in the code, with additional fields added iff the `human` flag is
specified.
This is a breaking change for ILM, but since ILM has not yet been released, no
compatibility shim is needed.
This PR renames the CRUD APIS for ILM
GET _ilm/<policy>, _ilm -> _ilm/policy/<policy>, _ilm/policy
PUT _ilm/<policy> -> _ilm/policy/<policy>
DELETE _ilm/<policy> -> _ilm/policy/<policy>
closes#34929.