Forcemerge on daily or on monthly

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Hello,
We are implementing an Index Lifecycle Policy each month to reindex our daily indexes into a monthly index using the _reindex api

From https://www.elastic.co/blog/managing-time-based-indices-efficiently has good notes but wanted to get ideas as to, whether:

  • Is it better to forcemerge the daily index at the end of each day and then reindex these at the end of each month?

  • Reindex into the monthly index and then forcemerge this index?

We have IoT data coming from our devices with about ~2 million documents per day and I am looking at best ways to maintain these indexes.

Any advice is much appreciated

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Why not index into a monthly index instead and avoid reindexing?

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thanks, that makes sense

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