# ILM Error while deleting ES index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-error-while-deleting-es-index/304320>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 10, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-error-while-deleting-es-index/304320 "2022-05-10T08:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aman\_Gupta1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aman_gupta1/32/78726_2.png) [@Aman\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aman_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-error-while-deleting-es-index/304320/1 "2022-05-10T08:27:32Z")

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Hi Team,

I'm facing issue while deleteing index via ILM.

description: i have index with name $webservicelogs\* ( where $webservice is name of actual services and after rotation it becomes webservicelogs2022.05.10 similarly for each date.

ILM policy : delete data older than 3 days.  
name : webservice-logs-policy

index template:

```auto
{
  "index": {
    "lifecycle": {
      "name": "webservice-logs-policy",
      "rollover_alias": "null"
    },
    "number_of_shards": "2",
    "number_of_replicas": "0"
  }
}

```

Error : illegal\_argument\_exception: index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias [null] does not point to index

Any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Aman\_Gupta1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aman_gupta1/32/78726_2.png) [@Aman\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aman_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-error-while-deleting-es-index/304320/2 "2022-05-12T15:53:20Z")

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Hi team

Kindly help, i'm stuck with this.

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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 9, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-error-while-deleting-es-index/304320/3 "2022-06-09T15:53:48Z")

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