Snapshot lifecycle management settings in Elasticsearch

These are the settings available for configuring snapshot lifecycle management (SLM).

Cluster-level settings

slm.history_index_enabled

(Static, boolean) Controls whether SLM records the history of actions taken as part of SLM policies to the slm-history-* indices. Defaults to true.

slm.retention_schedule

(Dynamic, cron scheduler value) Controls when the retention task runs. Can be a periodic or absolute time schedule. Supports all values supported by the cron scheduler. Defaults to daily at 1:30am UTC: 0 30 1 * * ?.

slm.retention_duration

(Dynamic, time value) Limits how long SLM should spend deleting old snapshots. Defaults to one hour: 1h.

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(Static) Specifies the read-only URL repositories that snapshots can be restored from.