OpenSearch/docs/reference/indices/apis/freeze.asciidoc

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[[freeze-index-api]]
== Freeze index API
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<titleabbrev>Freeze index</titleabbrev>
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Freezes an index.
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=== Request
`POST /<index>/_freeze`
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=== Description
A frozen index has almost no overhead on the cluster (except
for maintaining its metadata in memory), and is blocked for write operations.
See <<frozen-indices>> and <<unfreeze-index-api>>.
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=== Path Parameters
`index` (required)::
(string) Identifier for the index
//=== Query Parameters
//=== Authorization
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=== Examples
The following example freezes and unfreezes an index:
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POST /my_index/_freeze
POST /my_index/_unfreeze
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/^/PUT my_index\n/]
[IMPORTANT]
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Freezing an index will close the index and reopen it within the same API call. This causes primaries to not be allocated for a short
amount of time and causes the cluster to go red until the primaries are allocated again. This limitation might be removed in the future.
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