Exiting: resource 'metricbeat-7.4.2' exists, but it is not an alias

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I managed to find a way around this in case anyone else is interested. Here's what I had to do:

  • Stop new index auto-creation

    • Added action.auto_create_index: false to the user override settings for the node

  • Deleted the metricbeat-7.4.0 index (I can afford to lose this data)

  • Created a new metricbeat-7.4.0-2019-11-06 index and assign it the alias

PUT /metricbeat-7.4.0-2019-11-06

{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : "metricbeat-7.4.0-2019.11.06-000001", "alias" : "metricbeat-7.4.0", "is_write_index" : "true" }
           }
    ]
}
  • Re-enable auto-index creation (remove from user config)

The index I created quickly rolled over but I'm all good now. None of the metricbeat clients had to be touched to get back to a working state. Hoorah!

Cheers

Dave

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