Index Lifecycle Management configuration file setup

[dakrone (Lee Hinman)]

@karl_murray

So the documentation mostly shows creating the ILM config through the API, but I'm wondering if there is documentation around strictly setting this up through the configuration files, eg. elasticsearch.yml, filebeat.yml,etc.

Has anyone set it up like this? I'd rather not just create policies through kibana UI as I'd like to set up difference environments, and config files for ILM would make it easier.

Hi Karl,

Currently the API is the only way to configure ILM on the Elasticsearch side. You can configure the beats portion of the configuration in filebeat.yml, but for ES you cannot put a policy on disk for configuration.