# Index Lifecycle Management

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [May 29, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427 "2019-05-29T22:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![VamPikmin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vampikmin/32/22367_2.png) [@VamPikmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VamPikmin)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427/1 "2019-05-29T22:36:16Z")

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Hi all,  
Since the ELK 7 upgrade I noticed logstash index has picked up the logstash-policy under Index Lifecycle Policies.  
The thing is some of my indexes do not show here so I can't add them to a policy, I notice these indexes don't have templates defined, could this be the reason why?

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427/2 "2019-05-31T17:50:24Z")

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Hi there, can you help me understand which part of the UI you're referring to?

> The thing is some of my indexes do not show here so I can't add them to a policy

When you say your indices don't show here, do you mean they don't show up in Index Management?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/8/18883da96957b7436bb8bcc85739c66fac511b10.png)

Or do you mean to refer to _index templates_, which you're trying to add to a policy?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/9/796100a156c81d6360c6e20b3cc931b2347061e7.png)

If you could share screenshots of what you're seeing (with your private data obfuscated) that would help too. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![VamPikmin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vampikmin/32/22367_2.png) [@VamPikmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VamPikmin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427/3 "2019-06-02T04:38:46Z")

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Hi,  
Thank you for your reply. They show up all in index management but they don't when I want to add a template to a policy because I dont think cisco-asa and winlogbeat have a template- when i curl localhost:9200/\_template/cisco-asa?pretty nothing shows up, is having a template a requirement?

 ![Elastic2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/7/d753003b84188a9f2986f897087ac2ee1d0f332e.png)

Note: cisco-asa index and winlogbeat are not selectable

 ![Elastic1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/e/9e3c78271ecfd43a70d3a561abba3c368c9afca5.png)

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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:** [June 30, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-management/183427/4 "2019-06-30T04:38:51Z")

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