[[slm-api-get-policy]]
=== Get snapshot lifecycle policy API
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<titleabbrev>Get policy</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves one or more snapshot lifecycle policy definitions and
information about the latest snapshot attempts.

[[slm-api-get-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_slm/policy/<policy-id>`

`GET /_slm/policy`

[[slm-api-get-lifecycle-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the `manage_slm`
cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see
<<security-privileges>>.

[[slm-api-get-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

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.

[[slm-api-get-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<policy-id>`::
(Optional, string)
Comma-separated list of snapshot lifecycle policy IDs.

[[slm-api-get-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

[[slm-api-get-specific-ex]]
===== Get a specific policy

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[source,console]
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PUT /_slm/policy/daily-snapshots
{
  "schedule": "0 30 1 * * ?", <1>
  "name": "<daily-snap-{now/d}>", <2>
  "repository": "my_repository", <3>
  "config": { <4>
    "indices": ["data-*", "important"], <5>
    "ignore_unavailable": false,
    "include_global_state": false
  },
  "retention": { <6>
    "expire_after": "30d", <7>
    "min_count": 5, <8>
    "max_count": 50 <9>
  }
}
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// TEST[setup:setup-repository]
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Get the `daily-snapshots` policy:

[source,console]
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GET /_slm/policy/daily-snapshots?human
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// TEST[continued]

This request returns the following response:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "daily-snapshots" : {
    "version": 1, <1>
    "modified_date": "2019-04-23T01:30:00.000Z", <2>
    "modified_date_millis": 1556048137314,
    "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": "2019-04-24T01:30:00.000Z", <3>
    "next_execution_millis": 1556048160000
  }
}
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/"modified_date": "2019-04-23T01:30:00.000Z"/"modified_date": $body.daily-snapshots.modified_date/ s/"modified_date_millis": 1556048137314/"modified_date_millis": $body.daily-snapshots.modified_date_millis/ s/"next_execution": "2019-04-24T01:30:00.000Z"/"next_execution": $body.daily-snapshots.next_execution/ s/"next_execution_millis": 1556048160000/"next_execution_millis": $body.daily-snapshots.next_execution_millis/]
<1> The version of the snapshot policy, only the latest verison is stored and incremented when the policy is updated
<2> The last time this policy was modified.
<3> The next time this policy will be executed.


[[slm-api-get-all-ex]]
===== Get all policies

[source,console]
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GET /_slm/policy
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// TEST[continued]