slm-start.asciidoc

Start {slm} API

Start {slm}

Turns on {slm} ({slm-init}).

{api-request-title}

POST /_slm/start

{api-prereq-title}

If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the manage_slm cluster privilege to use this API. For more information, see [security-privileges].

{api-description-title}

Starts the {slm-init} plugin if it’s not running. {slm-init} starts automatically when a cluster is formed. Manually starting {slm-init} is only necessary if it has been stopped using the [slm-api-stop].

{api-query-parms-title}

{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc

{api-examples-title}

Start the {slm-init} plugin:

POST _slm/start

If successful, this request returns:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}