Compacting Buckets
Bucket compaction is initiated with the POST /pools/default/buckets/[bucket-name]/controller/compactBucket HTTP method and URI.
HTTP method and URI
The following URI paths are for compacting buckets data and indexes and for canceling bucket compaction.
// Compacting
POST /pools/default/buckets/[bucket-name]/controller/compactBucket
// Cancelling compaction
POST /pools/default/buckets/[bucket-name]/controller/cancelBucketCompaction
Note: Administrative credentials must be provided for the node in the cluster.
Syntax for compaction
To compact data files and indexes associated with a specific bucket, use the following curl request syntax:
curl -i -v -X POST -u [admin]:[password]
http://[localhost]:8091/pools/default/buckets/[bucket-name]/controller/compactBucket
Syntax for cancelling compaction
To stop bucket compaction, use the following curl request syntax:
curl -i -v -X POST -u [admin]:[password]
http://[localhost]:8091/pools/default/buckets/[bucket-name]/controller/cancelBucketCompaction
Example
Curl example for compacting the default bucket:
curl -i -v -X POST -u Administrator:password \
http://10.5.2.54:8091/pools/default/buckets/default/controller/compactBucket