# Elasticsearch ILM Features **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [March 27, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-features/174188 "2019-03-27T18:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tony\_Chirillo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tony_chirillo/32/22647_2.png) [@Tony\_Chirillo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Chirillo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-features/174188/1 "2019-03-27T18:44:00Z")
Does anyone happen to know within the cold ILM phase, is it possible to allocate and freeze at different time intervals? In other words allocate to cold nodes at X days and then freeze the index at Y days? ---
**Author:** ![gbrown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gbrown/32/34482_2.png) [@gbrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gbrown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-features/174188/2 "2019-03-27T19:10:09Z")
Thank you for trying out ILM! This isn't currently possible, unfortunately - the `min_age` parameter is per-phase, and the actions within each phase are ordered by ILM and performed one after each other until all actions are complete. It isn't possible to have a delay within a Phase, only between phases. This is something we may be interested in addressing in a future release - could I ask you to file [a GitHub issue](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/new) describing your use case? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-features/174188/3 "2019-04-24T19:10:13Z")
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