ILM not deleting indicies

[jamesp220291 (james)]

Hi

i have some ILM with a delete phase after 7/30 days. However the indexs are not being deleted.

### Index lifecycle management

**Lifecycle policy**

[apm-rollover-30-days]

**Current action**

complete

**Failed step**

-

**Current phase**

delete

**Current action time**

2021-01-07 11:13:20

**Phase definition**

Show definition

its just stuck in the delete phase, and it should of been deleted a long time ago, why is es not deleting these?

should of been deleted on the 07/02/2021 and its still there nearly a month later.

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Please share your policy and an explain against the index.

[jamesp220291 (james)]

index -

    {
      "indices" : {
        "apm-7.10.0-error-000001" : {
          "index" : "apm-7.10.0-error-000001",
          "managed" : true,
          "policy" : "apm-rollover-30-days",
          "lifecycle_date_millis" : 1610017400389,
          "age" : "53.89d",
          "phase" : "delete",
          "phase_time_millis" : 1610707404916,
          "action" : "complete",
          "action_time_millis" : 1610018000194,
          "step" : "complete",
          "step_time_millis" : 1610707404916,
          "phase_execution" : {
            "policy" : "apm-rollover-30-days",
            "phase_definition" : {
              "min_age" : "7d",
              "actions" : { }
            },
            "version" : 8,
            "modified_date_in_millis" : 1610707402427
          }
        }
      }
    }

ILM -

{
  "apm-rollover-30-days" : {
    "version" : 8,
    "modified_date" : "2021-01-15T10:43:22.427Z",
    "policy" : {
      "phases" : {
        "hot" : {
          "min_age" : "0ms",
          "actions" : {
            "rollover" : {
              "max_size" : "28gb",
              "max_age" : "1d"
            },
            "set_priority" : {
              "priority" : 100
            }
          }
        },
        "delete" : {
          "min_age" : "7d",
          "actions" : { }
        },
        "warm" : {
          "min_age" : "0ms",
          "actions" : {
            "allocate" : {
              "include" : { },
              "exclude" : { },
              "require" : {
                "data" : "warm"
              }
            },
            "forcemerge" : {
              "max_num_segments" : 1
            },
            "readonly" : { },
            "set_priority" : {
              "priority" : 50
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

@jamesp220291

"delete" : {
          "min_age" : "7d",
          "actions" : { }
        },

You need a delete in the actions section too

[jamesp220291 (james)]

i actually did this ILM via the kibana UI.

so, is this just something that doesnt happen in the UI?

sounds like a bug?

yep it is...

[ILM] ILM UI doesn't add delete actions

thanks

how would i now edit these policies to include the action?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

You can copy the policy above, add the delete and then post it to the API in (the Kibana) Console.
Or just upgrade