Elasticsearch Curator Python API
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The Elasticsearch Curator Python API helps you manage your indices and
snapshots.

Note: This documentation is for the Elasticsearch Curator Python
  API. Documentation for the Elasticsearch Curator *CLI* -- which uses
  this API and is installed as an entry_point as part of the package
  -- is available in the Elastic guide.


Compatibility
=============

The Elasticsearch Curator Python API is compatible with the 5.x
Elasticsearch versions, and supports Python versions 2.7 and later.


Example Usage
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   import elasticsearch
   import curator

   client = elasticsearch.Elasticsearch()

   ilo = curator.IndexList(client)
   ilo.filter_by_regex(kind='prefix', value='logstash-')
   ilo.filter_by_age(source='name', direction='older', timestring='%Y.%m.%d', unit='days', unit_count=30)
   delete_indices = curator.DeleteIndices(ilo)
   delete_indices.do_action()

Tip: See more examples in the Examples page.


Features
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The API methods fall into the following categories:

* Object Classes build and filter index list or snapshot list
  objects.

* Action Classes act on object classes.

* Utilities are helper methods.


Logging
-------

The Elasticsearch Curator Python API uses the standard logging library
from Python. It inherits two loggers from "elasticsearch-py":
"elasticsearch" and "elasticsearch.trace". Clients use the
"elasticsearch" logger to log standard activity, depending on the log
level. The "elasticsearch.trace" logger logs requests to the server in
JSON format as pretty-printed "curl" commands that you can execute
from the command line. The "elasticsearch.trace" logger is not
inherited from the base logger and must be activated separately.


Contents
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* Object Classes

  * IndexList

  * SnapshotList

* Action Classes

  * Alias

  * Allocation

  * Close

  * ClusterRouting

  * CreateIndex

  * DeleteIndices

  * DeleteSnapshots

  * ForceMerge

  * IndexSettings

  * Open

  * Reindex

  * Replicas

  * Restore

  * Rollover

  * Shrink

  * Snapshot

* Filter Methods

  * IndexList

  * SnapshotList

* Utility & Helper Methods

* Examples

  * Filter indices by prefix

  * Filter indices by suffix

  * Filter indices by age (name)

  * Filter indices by age (creation_date)

  * Filter indices by age (field_stats)

* Changelog

  * 5.6.0 (13 November 2018)

  * 5.5.4 (23 May 2018)

  * 5.5.3 (21 May 2018)

  * 5.5.2 (14 May 2018)

  * 5.5.1 (22 March 2018)

  * 5.5.0 (21 March 2018)

  * 5.4.1 (6 December 2017)

  * 5.4.0 (13 November 2017)

  * 5.3.0 (31 October 2017)

  * 5.2.0 (1 September 2017)

  * 5.1.2 (08 August 2017)

  * 5.1.1 (8 June 2017)

  * 5.1.0 (8 June 2017)

  * 5.0.4 (16 May 2017)

  * 5.0.3 (15 May 2017)

  * 5.0.2 (4 May 2017)

  * 5.0.1 (10 April 2017)

  * 5.0.0 (5 April 2017)

  * 5.0.0a1 (23 March 2017)

  * 4.2.6 (27 January 2016)

  * 4.2.5 (22 December 2016)

  * 4.2.4 (7 December 2016)

  * 4.2.3.post1 (22 November 2016)

  * 4.2.3 (21 November 2016)

  * 4.2.2 (21 November 2016)

  * 4.2.1 (8 November 2016)

  * 4.2.0 (4 November 2016)

  * 4.1.2 (6 October 2016)

  * 4.1.1 (27 September 2016)

  * 4.1.0 (6 September 2016)

  * 4.0.6 (15 August 2016)

  * 4.0.5 (3 August 2016)

  * 4.0.4 (1 August 2016)

  * 4.0.3 (22 July 2016)

  * 4.0.2 (22 July 2016)

  * 4.0.1 (1 July 2016)

  * 4.0.0 (24 June 2016)

  * 4.0.0b2 (16 June 2016)

  * 4.0.0b1 (13 June 2016)

  * 4.0.0a10 (10 June 2016)

  * 4.0.0a9 (27 Apr 2016)

  * 4.0.0a8 (26 Apr 2016)

  * 4.0.0a7 (25 Apr 2016)

  * 4.0.0a6 (25 Apr 2016)

  * 4.0.0a4 (21 Apr 2016)

  * 4.0.0a3 (21 Apr 2016)

  * 3.5.1 (21 March 2016)

  * 3.5.0 (16 March 2016)

  * 3.4.1 (10 February 2016)

  * 3.4.0 (28 October 2015)

  * 3.3.0 (31 August 2015)

  * 3.2.3 (16 July 2015)

  * 3.2.2 (13 July 2015)

  * 3.2.1 (10 July 2015)

  * 3.2.0 (25 June 2015)

  * 3.1.0 (21 May 2015)

  * 3.0.3 (27 Mar 2015)

  * 3.0.2 (23 Mar 2015)

  * 3.0.1 (16 Mar 2015)

  * 3.0.0 (9 March 2015)

  * 3.0.0rc1 (5 March 2015)

  * 3.0.0b4 (5 March 2015)

  * 3.0.0b3 (4 March 2015)

  * 3.0.0-beta2 (3 March 2015)

  * 3.0.0-beta1 (3 March 2015)

  * 2.1.2 (22 January 2015)

  * 2.1.1 (30 December 2014)

  * 2.1.0 (30 December 2014)

  * 2.0.2 (8 October 2014)

  * 2.0.1 (1 October 2014)

  * 2.0.0 (25 September 2014)

  * 1.2.2 (29 July 2014)

  * 1.2.1 (24 July 2014)

  * 1.2.0 (24 July 2014)

  * 1.1.3 (18 July 2014)

  * 1.1.2 (13 June 2014)

  * 1.1.0 (12 June 2014)

  * 1.0.0 (25 Mar 2014)

  * 0.6.2 (18 Feb 2014)

  * 0.6.1 (08 Feb 2014)

  * 0.6.0 (08 Feb 2014)

  * 0.5.2 (26 Jan 2014)

  * 0.5.1 (20 Jan 2014)

  * 0.5.0 (17 Jan 2014)

  * 0.4.0


License
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Copyright (c) 2012–2017 Elasticsearch <http://www.elastic.co>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
obtain a copy of the License at

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