Removes the `flat_settings` and `timeout` query parameters from the JSON
spec and asciidoc docs for the put index template API.
These parameters are not supported by the API.
This commit introduces hidden aliases. These are similar to hidden
indices, in that they are not visible by default, unless explicitly
specified by name or by indicating that hidden indices/aliases are
desired.
The new alias property, `is_hidden` is implemented similarly to
`is_write_index`, except that it must be consistent across all indices
with a given alias - that is, all indices with a given alias must
specify the alias as either hidden, or all specify it as non-hidden,
either explicitly or by omitting the `is_hidden` property.
The translog retention settings index.translog.retention.size and
index.translog.retention.age were effectively ignored in 7.4,
deprecated in 7.7, and now removed in 8.0 in favor of soft-deletes.
Closes#50775
The docs tests have recently been running much slower than before (see #49753).
The gist here is that with ILM/SLM we do a lot of unnecessary setup / teardown work on each
test. Compounded with the slightly slower cluster state storage mechanism, this causes the
tests to run much slower.
In particular, on RAMDisk, docs:check is taking
ES 7.4: 6:55 minutes
ES master: 16:09 minutes
ES with this commit: 6:52 minutes
on SSD, docs:check is taking
ES 7.4: ??? minutes
ES master: 32:20 minutes
ES with this commit: 11:21 minutes
This commit deprecates the creation of dot-prefixed index names (e.g.
.watches) unless they are either 1) a hidden index, or 2) registered by
a plugin that extends SystemIndexPlugin. This is the first step
towards more thorough protections for system indices.
This commit also modifies several plugins which use dot-prefixed indices
to register indices they own as system indices, and adds a plugin to
register .tasks as a system index.
Synced flush was a brilliant idea. It supports instant recoveries with a
quite small implementation. However, with the presence of sequence
numbers and retention leases, it is no longer needed. This change
removes it from 8.0.
Relates #5077
* Add ILM histore store index
This commit adds an ILM history store that tracks the lifecycle
execution state as an index progresses through its ILM policy. ILM
history documents store output similar to what the ILM explain API
returns.
An example document with ALL fields (not all documents will have all
fields) would look like:
```json
{
"@timestamp": 1203012389,
"policy": "my-ilm-policy",
"index": "index-2019.1.1-000023",
"index_age":123120,
"success": true,
"state": {
"phase": "warm",
"action": "allocate",
"step": "ERROR",
"failed_step": "update-settings",
"is_auto-retryable_error": true,
"creation_date": 12389012039,
"phase_time": 12908389120,
"action_time": 1283901209,
"step_time": 123904107140,
"phase_definition": "{\"policy\":\"ilm-history-ilm-policy\",\"phase_definition\":{\"min_age\":\"0ms\",\"actions\":{\"rollover\":{\"max_size\":\"50gb\",\"max_age\":\"30d\"}}},\"version\":1,\"modified_date_in_millis\":1576517253463}",
"step_info": "{... etc step info here as json ...}"
},
"error_details": "java.lang.RuntimeException: etc\n\tcaused by:etc etc etc full stacktrace"
}
```
These documents go into the `ilm-history-1-00000N` index to provide an
audit trail of the operations ILM has performed.
This history storage is enabled by default but can be disabled by setting
`index.lifecycle.history_index_enabled` to `false.`
Resolves#49180
The freeze index API docs state that frozen indices are blocked for
write operations.
While this implies frozen indices are read-only, it does not explicitly
use the term "read-only", which is found in other docs, such as the
force merge docs.
This adds the "ready-only" term to the freeze index API docs as well
as other clarification.
The current snippets in the synced flush docs can cause conflicts with
other background syncs, such as the global checkpoint sync or retention
lease sync, in the docs tests.
This skips tests for those snippets to avoid conflicts.
We should only snapshot the index we're going to
restore in the next step. Otherwise, we will
potentially not get the correct response or
fail restoring outright due to internal indices
getting created concurrently when running against
the x-pack distribution.
Closes#46844