Hi all,
I am a beginner in elastic and I've inherited an environment in elastic cloud.
I have an index that ends with a dash, let's call it indexname-
Developers wrote code to insert records to this index name.
There is no index template and no lifecycle management.
Now I want to perform some order in the mess that is currently happening.
I want to create an ILM and also to change the index name to something more normal like indexname-000001
Now here comes my question, forget about the index rename for now, assuming data is not important and I create a new index with a proper name as mentioned above.
I guess I need to create an index template with an alias named indexname
Then ask for the developers to change the reference in their code to indexname instead of indexname-, will this cause the code to write to my index indexname-00001?
Also after creating the ILM it will automatically create a new index named indexname-000002 and point the alias to this index?
Thanks in advance for your patience to a novice.
