Hello,
I had a problem where my Metricbeat index would not update according to the Lifecycle Policy I had set in the config. As it turns out there was a default "metricbeat" Lifecycle Policy active which overrode my configuration. I was able to change the Policy via the Kibana UI but I was wondering if there was a more reliable way to ensure my policy will be used.
I know that you can define a Lifecycle Policy via the index template. Is there a way which would allow me to easily add this to my config automatically?
I am running Metricbeat via Kubernetes and want the policy to always stay active .. for instance if I redeploy Metricbeat I dont want to run the risk of it changing to another default policy.