Downsampling can take a long time and unfortunately in erroneous situations, downsample operations may get stuck. We should be able to cancel a downsample operation for these cases.
Stopping a downsample operation would include the following steps:
Mark a certain downsample operation as cancelled in downsample source index's IndexMetadata.
Teach ILM/DSL not to attempt to downsample again for the current interval step that was stopped. ILM/DSL may decide that downsample the next interval step.
Downsampling can take a long time and unfortunately in erroneous situations, downsample operations may get stuck. We should be able to cancel a downsample operation for these cases.
Stopping a downsample operation would include the following steps: