# Index is not rolling over

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-rolling-over/215546>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-rolling-over/215546 "2020-01-18T06:01:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![asrinivasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@asrinivasan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asrinivasan)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-rolling-over/215546/1 "2020-01-18T06:01:08Z")

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I created a lifec cycle policy to rollover after size reaches 30G, i then changed it to 100MB, however this did not take effect and the index did not rollover

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7fb703c275cbf0001dcbb0ed6011e2347f64fea6.png)  
Running  
GET xxx-filemgr-000004/\_ilm/explain

Gives

```
{

```

"indices" : {  
"xxx-xxxx-000004" : {  
"index" : "xxx-xxxx-000004",  
"managed" : true,  
"policy" : "xxx\_policy",  
"lifecycle\_date\_millis" : 1579124902569,  
"phase" : "hot",  
"phase\_time\_millis" : 1579124903572,  
"action" : "rollover",  
"action\_time\_millis" : 1579125444675,  
"step" : "check-rollover-ready",  
"step\_time\_millis" : 1579125444675,  
"phase\_execution" : {  
"policy" : "dlp\_policy",  
"phase\_definition" : {  
"min\_age" : "0ms",  
"actions" : {  
"rollover" : {  
"max\_size" : "30gb"  
}  
}  
},  
"version" : 1,  
"modified\_date\_in\_millis" : 1574287086021  
}  
}  
}  
}

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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:** [February 15, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-rolling-over/215546/2 "2020-02-15T06:01:10Z")

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