# ELasticsearch - ILM Policy
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-policy/255856
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-policy/255856 "2020-11-18T14:29:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@shadu88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadu88)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-policy/255856/1 "2020-11-18T14:29:13Z")
Hi There,
I have a scenario to implement in Elastic cluster. I have 12 node elastic cluster
2 - coordinating Nodes
4 - Hot Data Nodes
3 - Warm data Nodes
3 - Master Nodes
Im trying to implement ILM policy based on age. My Scenario:
1. Data should come to Hot data nodes
2. After a week it should move to Warm data nodes
3. Afrer 3 weeks take index snapshot and move Azure storage blob
Kindly help me with your insights or any references or pointers much appreciated
thank you in advance
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### Author:  [@widhalmt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/widhalmt)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-policy/255856/2 "2020-11-18T14:58:47Z")
Hi there. 🙂
Have a look into Kibana-\>Management. There's a section about ILM with preconfigured policies that are according to best practices.
One important thing is to know how you're writing your data into Elasticsearch. Your writing client is telling Elasticsearch which policy (by id/name) to use.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ilm-policy/255856/3 "2020-12-16T14:58:52Z")
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