# How can I find is ilm policy been applied to my index? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [January 28, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-find-is-ilm-policy-been-applied-to-my-index/295708 "2022-01-28T13:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![baalchina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baalchina/32/100690_2.png) [@baalchina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baalchina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-find-is-ilm-policy-been-applied-to-my-index/295708/1 "2022-01-28T13:32:38Z")
Hi, I am trying to apply a ILM policy to my index, I created a new index template, all of them are empty except a index pattern(and this pattern has some index include). At last, I assigin the ILM policy to the new index tempalte. And I want to know whether it works? I searched the es document, seems I can not find whether my index assigned to the template, or index had assigned to the ILM policy? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![baalchina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baalchina/32/100690_2.png) [@baalchina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baalchina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-find-is-ilm-policy-been-applied-to-my-index/295708/2 "2022-01-28T14:26:09Z")
Well, I got the answer: ```auto GET /index_name/_ilm/explain?pretty ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-find-is-ilm-policy-been-applied-to-my-index/295708/3 "2022-02-25T14:27:05Z")
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