# Index lifecycle policies not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policies-not-working/197092>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policies-not-working/197092 "2019-08-28T11:02:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![L33T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@L33T](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/L33T)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policies-not-working/197092/1 "2019-08-28T11:02:16Z")

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Hi,

I have a very simple setup at present, just a single rollover policy to create a new index every 4gb or 1day but it`s not working and the index is still growing over that limit.

Any help would be awesome 🙂

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Cheers,

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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 25, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policies-not-working/197092/2 "2019-09-25T11:02:25Z")

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