# Index lifecycle error on metricbeat and heartbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715 "2021-08-07T20:26:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![cool999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cool999](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cool999)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715/1 "2021-08-07T20:26:46Z")

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Hi Team,

In kibana under, in `index management` under `indices` its showing 79 indices have lifecycle errors and this no. is getting increased daily on elasticsearch v7.4

I am going through ILM docs, for beats ILM is enabled default and I have not done any modification so my concern is why its showing this error for out of box things?

from docs its not clear what needs to point `metricbeat-7.4.0` to index `metricbeat-7.4.0-2021.07.02`.

metricbeat

`Index lifecycle error`

`illegal_argument_exception: index.lifecycle.rollover_alias [metricbeat-7.4.0] does not point to index [metricbeat-7.4.0-2021.07.02]`

heartbeat

`llegal_argument_exception: index.lifecycle.rollover_alias [heartbeat-7.4.0] does not point to index [heartbeat-7.4.0-2021.07.01]`

can't see this error for `filebeat`.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![cool999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cool999](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cool999)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715/2 "2021-08-09T15:26:48Z")

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Hi Team,

any reason for above error?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715/3 "2021-08-09T18:17:08Z")

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Run the following in Kibana / Dev Tools and report back

`GET metricbeat-7.4.0/_alias`

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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:** [September 6, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-error-on-metricbeat-and-heartbeat/280715/4 "2021-09-06T20:17:16Z")

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