# ILM policy for .monitoring indexes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-for-monitoring-indexes/285433
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-for-monitoring-indexes/285433 "2021-09-29T06:06:17Z")
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#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-for-monitoring-indexes/285433/2 "2021-10-01T09:59:37Z")

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This seems very helpful:  
[Ilm policy on system index - #2 by jakelandis](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-on-system-index/183657/2)

And for the reference issue to have ilm for monitoring indices out of the box: [Use ILM to manage internal indices · Issue #38470 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/38470)

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