# Index Error - Lifecycle Management 6.6 - Elastic Cloud

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 2, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838 "2019-02-02T20:30:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838/1 "2019-02-02T20:30:36Z")

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I've updated our dev cluster to 6.6 in Elastic Cloud and follow documentation to try and create an Index Life Cycle Policy. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-put-lifecycle.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-put-lifecycle.html)

Message I get back is:

```
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "invalid_index_name_exception",
        "reason": "Invalid index name [_ilm], must not start with '_', '-', or '+'",
        "index_uuid": "_na_",
        "index": "_ilm"
      }
    ],
    "type": "invalid_index_name_exception",
    "reason": "Invalid index name [_ilm], must not start with '_', '-', or '+'",
    "index_uuid": "_na_",
    "index": "_ilm"
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838/2 "2019-02-03T00:04:36Z")

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ILM didn't make it to Cloud due to a bug unfortunately, you can follow along here - [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/37541](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/37541)

We expect it won't be far off though 🙂

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**Author:** ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838/3 "2019-02-03T00:47:29Z")

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Thank you for quick reply

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-error-lifecycle-management-6-6-elastic-cloud/166838/4 "2019-03-03T00:47:32Z")

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