# ILM policies conditions are getting exceeded to rollover the indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [August 17, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308 "2022-08-17T16:16:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Mangesh\_Mathe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mangesh_Mathe)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/1 "2022-08-17T16:16:50Z")
Hello Elastic Team,
I have applied ILM policy(test) to my Index(timeseries) where I have defined ONLY hot phase with conditions max\_age(15m) & max\_docs(5).
My index is getting rollover but not following/matching above conditions strictly.
It always exceeds the max\_age & max\_docs with indices name as 00001,00002,00003...so on
**Expected behavior** : Any of the conditions(either max\_age or max\_docs) should match and once it matched it should rollover the index.
```auto
#==> ILM policy <============================
PUT _ilm/policy/test
{
"policy": {
"phases": {
"hot": {
"min_age": "0ms",
"actions": {
"rollover": {
"max_age": "15m",
"max_docs":5
},
"set_priority": {
"priority": 100
}
}
}
}
}
}
#==> Index Template <=========================
PUT _index_template/timeseries_template
{
"index_patterns": ["timeseries-*"],
"template":{
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 1,
"number_of_replicas": 1,
"index.lifecycle.name": "test",
"index.lifecycle.rollover_alias": "timeseries"
}
}
}
#==> Write aliases<===========================
PUT timeseries-000001
{
"aliases": {
"timeseries": {
"is_write_index": true
}
}
}
#==> To check the ILM actions<=================
GET timeseries-*/_ilm/explain
#==> sending data into Index <=================
POST timeseries/_doc
{
"name":"mangesh",
"birthdate":"1993-06-01"
}
POST timeseries/_doc
{
"name":"pankaj",
"birthdate":"1994-10-01"
}
==============================================
```
Is there any default minimum value for the fields max\_age & max\_docs in elasticsearch? If not then please suggest on this.
Help me to correct if there is anything wrong with my queries.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/2 "2022-08-22T00:34:47Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
ILM runs a check every 10 minutes, by default, to see if indices need actions applied to them. Your conditions are too small to be able to accurately rollover unfortunately.
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### Author:  [@Mangesh\_Mathe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mangesh_Mathe)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/3 "2022-08-22T11:37:12Z")
Understood. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Mangesh\_Mathe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mangesh_Mathe)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/4 "2022-08-22T11:45:21Z")
Can you please tell me , what if I want to rollover my indices on monthly basis.
I want to generate rollover indices for SEPT...OCT...NOV...DEC
I know we can use **"max\_age":"30d"** for that , but it will create problem for the months having 31 days & 28 days in a year.
```auto
"actions": {
"rollover": {
"max_age": "(Monthly)",
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/5 "2022-08-22T21:20:24Z")
ILM doesn't support that type of date math, you might want to make a feature request for it though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policies-conditions-are-getting-exceeded-to-rollover-the-indices/312308/6 "2022-09-19T21:21:12Z")
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