In Kibana, if I click on an index, and then click the Manage button, I have the option to "Add lifecycle policy" to that existing index - I'm asked for the policy to add and the rollover index. How do I do this via the API? I see documentation on how to remove a policy but nothing on how to add on…

It's an index settings. So you need to call the update index settings API or the index template API . Of course this also works with the create index API . See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-settings.html#_index_level_settings Specifically index.lifecycle.name.

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dadoonet (David Pilato) November 4, 2020, 4:26pm 2

Isn't this page?

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