# Help in index life cycle management

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197 "2019-05-22T10:22:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Vikash\_Singh1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikash_singh1/32/42119_2.png) [@Vikash\_Singh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikash_Singh1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/1 "2019-05-22T10:22:35Z")

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Is there anyway through which I can directly add ILM to my indices during creation???

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**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/2 "2019-05-22T21:55:07Z")

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Hi Vikash,

Yes, check out [index templates](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.x/indices-templates.html). You can apply any index settings when an index matching the index patterns is created.

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**Author:** ![Vikash\_Singh1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikash_singh1/32/42119_2.png) [@Vikash\_Singh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikash_Singh1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/3 "2019-05-23T14:02:17Z")

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I guess it says using mapping function I can do...But am i suppose to add it inside grok i.e. my .conf file?

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**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/4 "2019-05-23T14:31:30Z")

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Are you using Logstash? What `.conf` file are you talking about?

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**Author:** ![Vikash\_Singh1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikash_singh1/32/42119_2.png) [@Vikash\_Singh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikash_Singh1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/5 "2019-05-23T14:43:37Z")

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Yes I am using Logstash for creating indices

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-index-life-cycle-management/182197/6 "2019-06-20T14:43:42Z")

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