So i did bootstrap it. Had no problem building alienvault-000001 and writing to it.
The error that comes up now is.
Index lifecycle error
illegal_argument_exception: setting [index.lifecycle.rollover_alias] for index [alienvault-000001] is empty or not defined
it is still writing to alienvault-000001
I did find a logstash setting but that did not seem to change anything
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
ilm_rollover_alias => "alienvault"
ilm_pattern => "000001"
ilm_policy => "alienvault-policy"
"alienvault-000001" : {
"index" : "alienvault-000001",
"managed" : true,
"policy" : "alienvault-policy",
"lifecycle_date" : "2020-01-22T21:15:05.426Z",
"lifecycle_date_millis" : 1579727705426,
"age" : "16.16h",
"phase" : "hot",
"phase_time" : "2020-01-23T13:08:57.537Z",
"phase_time_millis" : 1579784937537,
"action" : "rollover",
"action_time" : "2020-01-22T21:18:24.572Z",
"action_time_millis" : 1579727904572,
"step" : "ERROR",
"step_time" : "2020-01-23T13:18:24.472Z",
"step_time_millis" : 1579785504472,
"failed_step" : "check-rollover-ready",
"step_info" : {
"type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason" : "setting [index.lifecycle.rollover_alias] for index [alienvault-000001] is empty or not defined",
"stack_trace" : """java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setting [index.lifecycle.rollover_alias] for index [alienvault-000001] is empty or not defined
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ilm.WaitForRolloverReadyStep.evaluateCondition(WaitForRolloverReadyStep.java:50)
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleRunner.runPeriodicStep(IndexLifecycleRunner.java:142)
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleService.triggerPolicies(IndexLifecycleService.java:304)
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleService.triggered(IndexLifecycleService.java:242)
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.scheduler.SchedulerEngine.notifyListeners(SchedulerEngine.java:175)
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.scheduler.SchedulerEngine$ActiveSchedule.run(SchedulerEngine.java:203)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:304)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830)
"""
},
"phase_execution" : {
"policy" : "alienvault-policy",
"phase_definition" : {
"min_age" : "0ms",
"actions" : {
"rollover" : {
"max_age" : "1d"
},
"set_priority" : {
"priority" : 100
}
}
},
"version" : 13,
"modified_date" : "2020-01-23T12:57:13.062Z",
"modified_date_in_millis" : 1579784233062
}
}
}
}