# Elastic ILM Configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ilm-configuration/310401>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, filebeat\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ilm-configuration/310401 "2022-07-22T12:45:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ilm-configuration/310401/6 "2022-07-22T15:49:45Z")

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Actually you are right and you can set this using a file as you already discovered the setting in your other post.

This [answer in your other post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-for-filebeat-configuration/310396/9) is how the file needs to look like.

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