Cluster decommission

Introduced 1.0

The cluster decommission operation adds support decommissioning based on awareness. It greatly benefits multi-zone deployments, where awareness attributes, such as zones, can aid in applying new upgrades to a cluster in a controlled fashion. This is especially useful during outages, in which case, you can decommission the unhealthy zone to prevent replication requests from stalling and prevent your request backlog from becoming too large.

For more information about allocation awareness, see Shard allocation awareness.

Path and HTTP methods

PUT  /_cluster/decommission/awareness/{awareness_attribute_name}/{awareness_attribute_value}
GET  /_cluster/decommission/awareness/{awareness_attribute_name}/_status
DELETE /_cluster/decommission/awareness

Path parameters

Example requests

Decommissioning and recommissioning a zone

You can use the following example requests to decommission and recommission a zone:

The following example request decommissions zone-a:

PUT /_cluster/decommission/awareness/<zone>/<zone-a>

If you want to recommission a decommissioned zone, you can use the DELETE method:

DELETE /_cluster/decommission/awareness

Getting zone decommission status

The following example requests returns the decommission status of all zones.

GET /_cluster/decommission/awareness/zone/_status

Example responses

The following example response shows a successful zone decommission:

{
      "acknowledged": true
}

Getting zone decommission status

The following example response returns the decommission status of all zones:

{
     "zone-1": "INIT | DRAINING | IN_PROGRESS | SUCCESSFUL | FAILED"
}

Next steps

• For more information about zone awareness and weight, see Cluster awareness.
• For more information about allocation awareness, see Cluster formation.