# Index Lifecycle Management rollover on time, but deleting every 10min
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [June 14, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005 "2020-06-14T00:25:45Z")
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### Author:  [@jbalaguero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbalaguero)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005/1 "2020-06-14T00:25:45Z")
Hello,
We have this setting in our elasticsearch.yml configuration file:
indices.lifecycle.poll\_interval: 30s
And we have a set of indexes that must roll over every 3 minutes and must be alive for 6 minutes.
The rollover is happennig on time, but the deletion only occurs exactly every 10min.
For example:
01:52:30: index idx-000001 created
01:55:55: index idx-000002 created
01:59:25: index idx-000003 created
02:02:30: index idx-000001 deleted
So it seems the 'indices.lifecycle.poll\_interval' setting correctly informs about rollover actions every 30s, but not about delete actions (that is taking 10min, the setting default value).
Is this possible? Must I set up another setting for delete actions? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
Joan.
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### Author:  [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005/2 "2020-06-15T15:34:22Z")
> [@jbalaguero](#):
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> roll over every 3 minutes and must be alive for 6 minutes
Can you share your actual policy? It's a little harder to parse from this sentence, but I suspect that you have a `min_age` of 6 minutes in your `delete` phase, which means that it will be deleted 6 minutes _after_ the rollover has been performed (so 3 + 6 = ~9 minutes total lifetime)
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### Author:  [@jbalaguero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbalaguero)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005/3 "2020-06-15T17:53:16Z")
Hi dakrone,
Yes, you are right. That's the point, deletion takes rollover as initial point and not the index creation.
I need to delete indexes taking the index creation as a base. So I have decided to delete them manually. I understand that deleting indexes manually does not interfiere in the ILM.
Thanks,
Joan.
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### Author:  [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005/4 "2020-06-15T18:14:27Z")
> [@jbalaguero](#):
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> I need to delete indexes taking the index creation as a base.
You can do this by setting the origination date for the index, which is the date used for _any_ ILM action, see: [Index lifecycle management settings in Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-settings.html#_index_level_settings) (the setting is called `index.lifecycle.origination_date`)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management-rollover-on-time-but-deleting-every-10min/237005/5 "2020-07-13T18:25:35Z")
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