# APM Index Went Warm Without Rolling Over

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228 "2019-12-02T18:28:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![palkema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@palkema](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/palkema)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228/1 "2019-12-02T18:28:21Z")

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Hi,  
There was an issue with my APM indexes in that rolling over was disabled. They all went warm without rolling over. I updated the index so it allows writes and updated the ILM policy to allow rolling over.

For the last week all data in the APM indexes has been written to my warm indexes.. is there a way to force the rollover for these indexes to force the 0001 to 0002 and create a new 0001?

-Paul

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**Author:** ![palkema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@palkema](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/palkema)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228/2 "2019-12-02T18:30:10Z")

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OR.. would it be possible to promote a warm index back to hot in order for the ILM hot -\> warm policy to organically just re-run?

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**Author:** ![palkema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@palkema](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/palkema)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228/3 "2019-12-10T19:16:47Z")

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I ended up resolving this issue myself by copying the old indexes using the Reindex method in the API, then deleting the old indexes. This kept my historical data and also forced the current APM policy to go into effect.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-index-went-warm-without-rolling-over/210228/4 "2020-01-07T19:16:52Z")

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