# Beats with ILM

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-with-ilm/278177>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-with-ilm/278177 "2021-07-08T11:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Garry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garry)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-with-ilm/278177/1 "2021-07-08T11:02:51Z")

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I am using Elastic cloud and have configured an Index Lifecycle Policy.  
We initially had a trial period with Elastic and have started pulling in data via filebeats, winlogbeats etc, which have created their own index templates, indices.  
How do I now add the new ILM policy to these existing beats?  
I want the same policy to cover all filebeat/winlogbeats ingestions that we have from the trial period.  
I have been looking over the documentation but I am still needing some assistance.  
From what i can see there are 2 areas to cover:

1. All new indices to be covered by the ILM.
2. Update existing data to be covered by ILM.

Any help would be appreciated.

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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:** [August 5, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-with-ilm/278177/2 "2021-08-05T13:03:00Z")

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