Hello Elastic people, this is a follow-up to Is it possible change creation_date on reindexed Indexes to get Life cycle Management to work on old indexes My usecase - so to say - is learning to use ES while trying to build a new log storage. I am still struggling to get the mappings right, which …

You can use the index setting index.lifecycle.origination_date to set a custom "age" for the index, so that if you were to reindex, you can tell ILM that it is a certain age without waiting for that long. Here's a blog post about it: Control the phase transition timings in ILM using the origination…

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ILM, creation_date and reindexing

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Tomo_M (Tomohiro Mitani) February 20, 2022, 3:39pm 3

Why not try shorter time span for just testing purpose?

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