I'm using version 7.8.1 of the elastic stack for indexing log files with filebeat into daily logstash-yyyy-mm-dd indexes. I've created an index pattern and template for the indexes and a Logstash_Index_Retention policy and applied it to the template. All I am concerned with is deleting old indexes…

Thanks! Your questions prodded me to think a bit more about how I'm going about this and I've found a good solution. Instead of trying to add the policy after installing the cluster, I'm adding it in at install time and putting the name of the policy in the index template that I use when installin…

Index lifecycle policy does not apply to newly created timeseries indexes

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spinscale (Alexander Reelsen) July 14, 2021, 8:29am 17

Hey,

I fully trust you that this is the only template you use, my idea was more that logstash might have been automatically installed a template, that overwrites this one

--Alex

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Index lifecycle policy does not apply to newly created timeseries indexes

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