diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
index bd7824470b5e8..901f564075875 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
@@ -530,6 +530,17 @@ static Request deleteByQuery(DeleteByQueryRequest deleteByQueryRequest) throws I
         return request;
     }
 
+    static Request rethrottle(RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest) throws IOException {
+        String endpoint = new EndpointBuilder().addPathPart("_reindex").addPathPart(rethrottleRequest.getTaskId().toString())
+                .addPathPart("_rethrottle").build();
+        Request request = new Request(HttpPost.METHOD_NAME, endpoint);
+        Params params = new Params(request)
+                .withRequestsPerSecond(rethrottleRequest.getRequestsPerSecond());
+        // we set "group_by" to "none" because this is the response format we can parse back
+        params.putParam("group_by", "none");
+        return request;
+    }
+
     static Request putScript(PutStoredScriptRequest putStoredScriptRequest) throws IOException {
         String endpoint = new EndpointBuilder().addPathPartAsIs("_scripts").addPathPart(putStoredScriptRequest.id()).build();
         Request request = new Request(HttpPost.METHOD_NAME, endpoint);
@@ -719,11 +730,11 @@ Params withRefreshPolicy(RefreshPolicy refreshPolicy) {
 
         Params withRequestsPerSecond(float requestsPerSecond) {
             // the default in AbstractBulkByScrollRequest is Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
-            // but we don't want to add that to the URL parameters, instead we leave it out
+            // but we don't want to add that to the URL parameters, instead we use -1
             if (Float.isFinite(requestsPerSecond)) {
-                return putParam("requests_per_second", Float.toString(requestsPerSecond));
+                return putParam(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, Float.toString(requestsPerSecond));
             } else {
-                return putParam("requests_per_second", "-1");
+                return putParam(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, "-1");
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
index ae1766fab0271..176436ce458a7 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.node.tasks.list.ListTasksResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.storedscripts.DeleteStoredScriptRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.storedscripts.GetStoredScriptRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.storedscripts.GetStoredScriptResponse;
@@ -474,13 +475,14 @@ public final BulkByScrollResponse updateByQuery(UpdateByQueryRequest updateByQue
      * Asynchronously executes an update by query request.
      * See <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update-by-query.html">
      *     Update By Query API on elastic.co</a>
+     * @param updateByQueryRequest the request
      * @param options the request options (e.g. headers), use {@link RequestOptions#DEFAULT} if nothing needs to be customized
      * @param listener the listener to be notified upon request completion
      */
-    public final void updateByQueryAsync(UpdateByQueryRequest reindexRequest, RequestOptions options,
+    public final void updateByQueryAsync(UpdateByQueryRequest updateByQueryRequest, RequestOptions options,
                                    ActionListener<BulkByScrollResponse> listener) {
         performRequestAsyncAndParseEntity(
-            reindexRequest, RequestConverters::updateByQuery, options, BulkByScrollResponse::fromXContent, listener, emptySet()
+                updateByQueryRequest, RequestConverters::updateByQuery, options, BulkByScrollResponse::fromXContent, listener, emptySet()
         );
     }
 
@@ -503,16 +505,45 @@ public final BulkByScrollResponse deleteByQuery(DeleteByQueryRequest deleteByQue
      * Asynchronously executes a delete by query request.
      * See <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html">
      *     Delete By Query API on elastic.co</a>
+     * @param deleteByQueryRequest the request
      * @param options the request options (e.g. headers), use {@link RequestOptions#DEFAULT} if nothing needs to be customized
      * @param listener the listener to be notified upon request completion
      */
-    public final void deleteByQueryAsync(DeleteByQueryRequest reindexRequest, RequestOptions options,
+    public final void deleteByQueryAsync(DeleteByQueryRequest deleteByQueryRequest, RequestOptions options,
                                          ActionListener<BulkByScrollResponse> listener) {
         performRequestAsyncAndParseEntity(
-            reindexRequest, RequestConverters::deleteByQuery, options, BulkByScrollResponse::fromXContent, listener, emptySet()
+                deleteByQueryRequest, RequestConverters::deleteByQuery, options, BulkByScrollResponse::fromXContent, listener, emptySet()
         );
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Executes a reindex rethrottling request.
+     * See the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html#docs-reindex-rethrottle">
+     *     Reindex rethrottling API on elastic.co</a>
+     * @param rethrottleRequest the request
+     * @param options the request options (e.g. headers), use {@link RequestOptions#DEFAULT} if nothing needs to be customized
+     * @return the response
+     * @throws IOException in case there is a problem sending the request or parsing back the response
+     */
+    public final ListTasksResponse reindexRethrottle(RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest, RequestOptions options) throws IOException {
+        return performRequestAndParseEntity(rethrottleRequest, RequestConverters::rethrottle, options, ListTasksResponse::fromXContent,
+                emptySet());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Executes a reindex rethrottling request.
+     * See the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html#docs-reindex-rethrottle">
+     *     Reindex rethrottling API on elastic.co</a>
+     * @param rethrottleRequest the request
+     * @param options the request options (e.g. headers), use {@link RequestOptions#DEFAULT} if nothing needs to be customized
+     * @param listener the listener to be notified upon request completion
+     */
+    public final void reindexRethrottleAsync(RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest, RequestOptions options,
+            ActionListener<ListTasksResponse> listener) {
+        performRequestAsyncAndParseEntity(rethrottleRequest, RequestConverters::rethrottle, options, ListTasksResponse::fromXContent,
+                listener, emptySet());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Pings the remote Elasticsearch cluster and returns true if the ping succeeded, false otherwise
      * @param options the request options (e.g. headers), use {@link RequestOptions#DEFAULT} if nothing needs to be customized
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RethrottleRequest.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RethrottleRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..eb1c666a0cf1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RethrottleRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.client;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.TaskId;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * A request changing throttling of a task.
+ */
+public class RethrottleRequest implements Validatable {
+
+    static final String REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER = "requests_per_second";
+
+    private final TaskId taskId;
+    private final float requestsPerSecond;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new {@link RethrottleRequest} which disables any throttling for the given taskId.
+     * @param taskId the task for which throttling will be disabled
+     */
+    public RethrottleRequest(TaskId taskId) {
+        this.taskId = taskId;
+        this.requestsPerSecond = Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new {@link RethrottleRequest} which changes the throttling for the given taskId.
+     * @param taskId the task that throttling changes will be applied to
+     * @param requestsPerSecond the number of requests per second that the task should perform. This needs to be a positive value.
+     */
+    public RethrottleRequest(TaskId taskId, float requestsPerSecond) {
+        Objects.requireNonNull(taskId, "taskId cannot be null");
+        if (requestsPerSecond <= 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("requestsPerSecond needs to be positive value but was [" + requestsPerSecond+"]");
+        }
+        this.taskId = taskId;
+        this.requestsPerSecond = requestsPerSecond;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the task Id
+     */
+    public TaskId getTaskId() {
+        return taskId;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the requests per seconds value
+     */
+    public float getRequestsPerSecond() {
+        return requestsPerSecond;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "RethrottleRequest: taskID = " + taskId +"; reqestsPerSecond = " + requestsPerSecond;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/CrudIT.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/CrudIT.java
index feb57bed9c46b..293e6b24a7b0d 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/CrudIT.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/CrudIT.java
@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@
 
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException;
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.DocWriteRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.DocWriteResponse;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.node.tasks.list.ListTasksRequest;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.node.tasks.list.ListTasksResponse;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.node.tasks.list.TaskGroup;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.get.GetIndexRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkItemResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkProcessor;
@@ -52,12 +56,15 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.IdsQueryBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.reindex.BulkByScrollResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.reindex.DeleteByQueryRequest;
+import org.elasticsearch.index.reindex.ReindexAction;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.reindex.ReindexRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.reindex.UpdateByQueryRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestStatus;
 import org.elasticsearch.script.Script;
 import org.elasticsearch.script.ScriptType;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.subphase.FetchSourceContext;
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.RawTaskStatus;
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.TaskId;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
 import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
@@ -65,9 +72,15 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
 import static java.util.Collections.singletonMap;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.empty;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.lessThan;
 
 public class CrudIT extends ESRestHighLevelClientTestCase {
 
@@ -631,7 +644,7 @@ public void testBulk() throws IOException {
         validateBulkResponses(nbItems, errors, bulkResponse, bulkRequest);
     }
 
-    public void testReindex() throws IOException {
+    public void testReindex() throws Exception {
         final String sourceIndex = "source1";
         final String destinationIndex = "dest";
         {
@@ -642,15 +655,14 @@ public void testReindex() throws IOException {
                 .build();
             createIndex(sourceIndex, settings);
             createIndex(destinationIndex, settings);
+            BulkRequest bulkRequest = new BulkRequest()
+                    .add(new IndexRequest(sourceIndex, "type", "1").source(Collections.singletonMap("foo", "bar"), XContentType.JSON))
+                    .add(new IndexRequest(sourceIndex, "type", "2").source(Collections.singletonMap("foo2", "bar2"), XContentType.JSON))
+                    .setRefreshPolicy(RefreshPolicy.IMMEDIATE);
             assertEquals(
                 RestStatus.OK,
                 highLevelClient().bulk(
-                    new BulkRequest()
-                        .add(new IndexRequest(sourceIndex, "type", "1")
-                            .source(Collections.singletonMap("foo", "bar"), XContentType.JSON))
-                        .add(new IndexRequest(sourceIndex, "type", "2")
-                            .source(Collections.singletonMap("foo2", "bar2"), XContentType.JSON))
-                        .setRefreshPolicy(RefreshPolicy.IMMEDIATE),
+                    bulkRequest,
                     RequestOptions.DEFAULT
                 ).status()
             );
@@ -692,6 +704,72 @@ public void testReindex() throws IOException {
             assertEquals(0, bulkResponse.getBulkFailures().size());
             assertEquals(0, bulkResponse.getSearchFailures().size());
         }
+        {
+            // test reindex rethrottling
+            ReindexRequest reindexRequest = new ReindexRequest();
+            reindexRequest.setSourceIndices(sourceIndex);
+            reindexRequest.setDestIndex(destinationIndex);
+
+            // this following settings are supposed to halt reindexing after first document
+            reindexRequest.setSourceBatchSize(1);
+            reindexRequest.setRequestsPerSecond(0.00001f);
+            final CountDownLatch reindexTaskFinished = new CountDownLatch(1);
+            highLevelClient().reindexAsync(reindexRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, new ActionListener<BulkByScrollResponse>() {
+
+                @Override
+                public void onResponse(BulkByScrollResponse response) {
+                    reindexTaskFinished.countDown();
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void onFailure(Exception e) {
+                    fail(e.toString());
+                }
+            });
+
+            TaskGroup taskGroupToRethrottle = findTaskToRethrottle();
+            assertThat(taskGroupToRethrottle.getChildTasks(), empty());
+            TaskId taskIdToRethrottle = taskGroupToRethrottle.getTaskInfo().getTaskId();
+
+            float requestsPerSecond = 1000f;
+            ListTasksResponse response = execute(new RethrottleRequest(taskIdToRethrottle, requestsPerSecond),
+                    highLevelClient()::reindexRethrottle, highLevelClient()::reindexRethrottleAsync);
+            assertThat(response.getTasks(), hasSize(1));
+            assertEquals(taskIdToRethrottle, response.getTasks().get(0).getTaskId());
+            assertThat(response.getTasks().get(0).getStatus(), instanceOf(RawTaskStatus.class));
+            assertEquals(Float.toString(requestsPerSecond),
+                    ((RawTaskStatus) response.getTasks().get(0).getStatus()).toMap().get("requests_per_second").toString());
+            reindexTaskFinished.await(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+
+            // any rethrottling after the reindex is done performed with the same taskId should result in a failure
+            response = execute(new RethrottleRequest(taskIdToRethrottle, requestsPerSecond),
+                    highLevelClient()::reindexRethrottle, highLevelClient()::reindexRethrottleAsync);
+            assertTrue(response.getTasks().isEmpty());
+            assertFalse(response.getNodeFailures().isEmpty());
+            assertEquals(1, response.getNodeFailures().size());
+            assertEquals("Elasticsearch exception [type=resource_not_found_exception, reason=task [" + taskIdToRethrottle + "] is missing]",
+                    response.getNodeFailures().get(0).getCause().getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private TaskGroup findTaskToRethrottle() throws IOException {
+        long start = System.nanoTime();
+        ListTasksRequest request = new ListTasksRequest();
+        request.setActions(ReindexAction.NAME);
+        request.setDetailed(true);
+        do {
+            ListTasksResponse list = highLevelClient().tasks().list(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
+            list.rethrowFailures("Finding tasks to rethrottle");
+            assertThat("tasks are left over from the last execution of this test",
+                list.getTaskGroups(), hasSize(lessThan(2)));
+            if (0 == list.getTaskGroups().size()) {
+                // The parent task hasn't started yet
+                continue;
+            }
+            return list.getTaskGroups().get(0);
+        } while (System.nanoTime() - start < TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(10));
+        throw new AssertionError("Couldn't find tasks to rethrottle. Here are the running tasks " +
+                highLevelClient().tasks().list(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT));
     }
 
     public void testUpdateByQuery() throws IOException {
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConvertersTests.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConvertersTests.java
index 1d06981dedff9..5fce2f168fbc9 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConvertersTests.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConvertersTests.java
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.search.rescore.QueryRescorerBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.SuggestBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.completion.CompletionSuggestionBuilder;
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.TaskId;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.RandomObjects;
 
@@ -319,10 +320,10 @@ public void testReindex() throws IOException {
         }
         if (randomBoolean()) {
             float requestsPerSecond = (float) randomDoubleBetween(0.0, 10.0, false);
-            expectedParams.put("requests_per_second", Float.toString(requestsPerSecond));
+            expectedParams.put(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, Float.toString(requestsPerSecond));
             reindexRequest.setRequestsPerSecond(requestsPerSecond);
         } else {
-            expectedParams.put("requests_per_second", "-1");
+            expectedParams.put(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, "-1");
         }
         if (randomBoolean()) {
             reindexRequest.setDestRouting("=cat");
@@ -465,6 +466,34 @@ public void testDeleteByQuery() throws IOException {
         assertToXContentBody(deleteByQueryRequest, request.getEntity());
     }
 
+    public void testRethrottle() throws IOException {
+        TaskId taskId = new TaskId(randomAlphaOfLength(10), randomIntBetween(1, 100));
+        RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest;
+        Float requestsPerSecond;
+        Map<String, String> expectedParams = new HashMap<>();
+        if (frequently()) {
+            requestsPerSecond =  (float) randomDoubleBetween(0.0, 100.0, true);
+            rethrottleRequest = new RethrottleRequest(taskId, requestsPerSecond);
+            expectedParams.put(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, Float.toString(requestsPerSecond));
+        } else {
+            rethrottleRequest = new RethrottleRequest(taskId);
+            expectedParams.put(RethrottleRequest.REQUEST_PER_SECOND_PARAMETER, "-1");
+        }
+        expectedParams.put("group_by", "none");
+        Request request = RequestConverters.rethrottle(rethrottleRequest);
+        assertEquals("/_reindex/" + taskId + "/_rethrottle", request.getEndpoint());
+        assertEquals(HttpPost.METHOD_NAME, request.getMethod());
+        assertEquals(expectedParams, request.getParameters());
+        assertNull(request.getEntity());
+
+        // test illegal RethrottleRequest values
+        Exception e = expectThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> new RethrottleRequest(null, 1.0f));
+        assertEquals("taskId cannot be null", e.getMessage());
+
+        e = expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> new RethrottleRequest(new TaskId("taskId", 1), -5.0f));
+        assertEquals("requestsPerSecond needs to be positive value but was [-5.0]", e.getMessage());
+    }
+
     public void testIndex() throws IOException {
         String index = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(3, 10);
         String type = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(3, 10);
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClientTests.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClientTests.java
index ca6043768df65..acdfc50b5a13a 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClientTests.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClientTests.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.client;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
+
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
@@ -658,7 +659,6 @@ public void testApiNamingConventions() throws Exception {
             "indices.get_upgrade",
             "indices.put_alias",
             "mtermvectors",
-            "reindex_rethrottle",
             "render_search_template",
             "scripts_painless_execute",
             "tasks.get",
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/documentation/CRUDDocumentationIT.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/documentation/CRUDDocumentationIT.java
index 142eacd820ffd..85612147b464d 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/documentation/CRUDDocumentationIT.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/documentation/CRUDDocumentationIT.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.DocWriteRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.DocWriteResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.LatchedActionListener;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.node.tasks.list.ListTasksResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BackoffPolicy;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkItemResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkProcessor;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.client.RequestOptions;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Response;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient;
+import org.elasticsearch.client.RethrottleRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesArray;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.script.ScriptType;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.subphase.FetchSourceContext;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.sort.SortOrder;
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.TaskId;
 
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Date;
@@ -902,6 +905,48 @@ public void onFailure(Exception e) {
         }
     }
 
+    public void testReindexRethrottle() throws Exception {
+        RestHighLevelClient client = highLevelClient();
+        TaskId taskId = new TaskId("oTUltX4IQMOUUVeiohTt8A:124");
+        {
+            // tag::rethrottle-disable-request
+            RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest = new RethrottleRequest(taskId); // <1>
+            client.reindexRethrottle(rethrottleRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
+            // end::rethrottle-disable-request
+        }
+
+        {
+            // tag::rethrottle-request
+            RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest = new RethrottleRequest(taskId, 100.0f); // <1>
+            client.reindexRethrottle(rethrottleRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
+            // end::rethrottle-request
+        }
+
+        // tag::rethrottle-request-async
+        ActionListener<ListTasksResponse> listener = new ActionListener<ListTasksResponse>() {
+            @Override
+            public void onResponse(ListTasksResponse response) {
+                // <1>
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void onFailure(Exception e) {
+                // <2>
+            }
+        };
+        // end::rethrottle-request-async
+
+        // Replace the empty listener by a blocking listener in test
+        final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+        listener = new LatchedActionListener<>(listener, latch);
+
+        RethrottleRequest rethrottleRequest = new RethrottleRequest(taskId);
+        // tag::rethrottle-execute-async
+        client.reindexRethrottleAsync(rethrottleRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, listener); // <1>
+        // end::rethrottle-execute-async
+        assertTrue(latch.await(30L, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
+    }
+
     public void testUpdateByQuery() throws Exception {
         RestHighLevelClient client = highLevelClient();
         {
diff --git a/docs/java-rest/high-level/document/reindex-rethrottle.asciidoc b/docs/java-rest/high-level/document/reindex-rethrottle.asciidoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..77b2fc335862f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/java-rest/high-level/document/reindex-rethrottle.asciidoc
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+[[java-rest-high-document-reindex-rethrottle]]
+=== Reindex Rethrottle API
+
+[[java-rest-high-document-reindex-rethrottle-request]]
+==== Reindex Rethrolle Request
+
+A `RethrottleRequest` can be used to change existing throttling on a runnind
+reindex task or disable it entirely. It requires the task Id of the reindex 
+task to change.
+
+In its simplest form, you can use it to disable throttling of a running
+reindex task using the following:
+
+["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/CRUDDocumentationIT.java[rethrottle-disable-request]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> Create a `RethrottleRequest` that disables throttling for a specific task id
+
+By providing a `requestsPerSecond` argument, the request will change the
+existing task throttling to the specified value:
+
+["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/CRUDDocumentationIT.java[rethrottle-request]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> Request to change the throttling of a task to 100 requests per second
+
+[[java-rest-high-document-reindex-rethrottle-async]]
+==== Asynchronous Execution
+
+The asynchronous execution of a rethrottle request requires both the `RethrottleRequest`
+instance and an `ActionListener` instance to be passed to the asynchronous
+method:
+
+["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/CRUDDocumentationIT.java[rethrottle-execute-async]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> The RethrottleRequest to execute and the ActionListener to use when the 
+execution completes 
+
+The asynchronous method does not block and returns immediately.
+Once it is completed the `ActionListener` is called back using the `onResponse` method
+if the execution successfully completed or using the `onFailure` method if
+it failed. A typical listener looks like this:
+
+["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/CRUDDocumentationIT.java[rethrottle-request-async]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> Code executed when the request is successfully completed
+<2> Code executed when the request fails with an exception
+
+[[java-rest-high-document-reindex-retrottle-response]]
+==== Rethrottle Response
+
+Rethrottling returns the task that has been rethrottled in the form of a 
+`ListTasksResponse`. The structure of this response object is described in detail 
+in <<java-rest-high-cluster-list-tasks-response,this section>>.
diff --git a/docs/java-rest/high-level/supported-apis.asciidoc b/docs/java-rest/high-level/supported-apis.asciidoc
index 51d00c403de62..f91a2ed8e7507 100644
--- a/docs/java-rest/high-level/supported-apis.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/java-rest/high-level/supported-apis.asciidoc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Multi-document APIs::
 * <<java-rest-high-document-reindex>>
 * <<java-rest-high-document-update-by-query>>
 * <<java-rest-high-document-delete-by-query>>
+* <<java-rest-high-document-reindex-rethrottle>>
 
 include::document/index.asciidoc[]
 include::document/get.asciidoc[]
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ include::document/multi-get.asciidoc[]
 include::document/reindex.asciidoc[]
 include::document/update-by-query.asciidoc[]
 include::document/delete-by-query.asciidoc[]
+include::document/reindex-rethrottle.asciidoc[]
 
 == Search APIs