# Index lifecycle create index every day

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-create-index-every-day/239471
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-create-index-every-day/239471 "2020-07-01T11:29:47Z")
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### Author: ![Thomas74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Thomas74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thomas74)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-create-index-every-day/239471/10 "2020-07-01T14:30:54Z")

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Ah yes, the updated policy will be taken in count for the newer indexes.

I founded a post which already explain how to do it :

> [@Unable to update ILM policy](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-update-ilm-policy/199480):
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> Hello, I have a hot-warm architecture cluster running in production containing 1000+ daily indices spanning 3 months. A single ILM policy moves indices from hot to warm after 4 days of creation, then to cold phase after 30 days and delete phase after 90 days. Currently all of these indices have this ILM policy applied directly via templates. Warm phase is configured to move an index from hot nodes to warm nodes. Problem here is that warm nodes are running out of disk space where as hot nodes …

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