How to issue _optimize on Elastic Cloud

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I am trying to issue an _optimize command via curl. I've tried both of the below styles:

$ curl --user username:password -XPOST "https://redacted.us-east-1.aws.found.io:9243/foo/_optimize?max_num_segments=1"
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"parse_exception","reason":"request body is required"}],"type":"parse_exception","reason":"request 

$ curl --user username:password -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST https://redacted.us-east-1.aws.found.io:9243/foo/_optimize -d '{"max_num_segments" : "1"}'
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"invalid_type_name_exception","reason":"Document mapping type name can't start with '_', found: [_optimize]"}],"type":"invalid_type_name_exception","reason":"Document mapping type name can't start with '_', found: [_optimize]"},"status":400}

Is _optimize supported on the Elastic Cloud version of Elasticsearch?

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The _optimize endpoint was deprecated in Elasticsearch 2.1 and subsequently removed in Elasticsearch 5.0. It was replaced by _forcemerge which more accurately describes what it's doing. Replace _optimize with _forcemerge and if you want to read more, have a look at the force merge API documentation

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@shanec Is it still recommended to run _forcemerge on indexes that you know will no longer be added to, to set the # of segments to 1?

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Elasticsearch will automatically merge segments in the background for you. If you want to explicitly do so at an optimal time, _forcemerge can be useful. But to be honest, most users don't need to explicitly call forcemerge.