# Index Lifecycle Policy not deleting - "Waiting for all shard copies to be active" **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [May 16, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801 "2022-05-16T10:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bavaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@Bavaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bavaria)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/1 "2022-05-16T10:06:07Z")
Can anyone help me with this? The policy is not deleting my indices after certain time. I put them to just to several days to see if its working. I am getting the message in my indices: Waiting for all shard copies to be active How can I do this? I just have one Node atm. ILM Policy ```auto { "ilm_policy" : { "version" : 1, "modified_date" : "2022-04-29T08:40:26.334Z", "policy" : { "phases" : { "warm" : { "min_age" : "2d", "actions" : { "set_priority" : { "priority" : 50 } } }, "hot" : { "min_age" : "0ms", "actions" : { "set_priority" : { "priority" : 100 }, "rollover" : { "max_age" : "2d" } } }, "delete" : { "min_age" : "3d", "actions" : { "delete" : { "delete_searchable_snapshot" : true } } } } }, "in_use_by" : { "indices" : [ "log-IDENTIFIER-000006", "log-IDENTIFIER-000005", "identities-00001", "log-IDENTIFIER-000004", "log-IDENTIFIER-000003", "log-IDENTIFIER000002", "identities-000002", "identities-000006", "identities-000005", "identities-000004", "log-IDENTIFIER-00001", "identities-000003" ], "data_streams" : [], "composable_templates" : [ "identities_template", "data_logs_template" ] } } ``` One of the Index, which should be deleted already ```auto { "indices" : { "log-IDENTIFIER-00001" : { "index" : "log-IDENTIFIER-00001", "managed" : true, "policy" : "logs_ilm_policy", "lifecycle_date" : "2022-05-06T13:28:36.985Z", "lifecycle_date_millis" : 1651843716985, "age" : "9.85d", "phase" : "warm", "phase_time" : "2022-05-08T13:38:36.884Z", "phase_time_millis" : 1652017116884, "action" : "migrate", "action_time" : "2022-05-08T13:38:37.087Z", "action_time_millis" : 1652017117087, "step" : "check-migration", "step_time" : "2022-05-08T13:38:37.708Z", "step_time_millis" : 1652017117708, "step_info" : { "message" : "Waiting for all shard copies to be active", "shards_left_to_allocate" : -1, "all_shards_active" : false, "number_of_replicas" : 1 }, "phase_execution" : { "policy" : "ilm_policy", "phase_definition" : { "min_age" : "2d", "actions" : { "set_priority" : { "priority" : 50 } } }, "version" : 1, "modified_date" : "2022-04-29T08:40:26.334Z", "modified_date_in_millis" : 1651221626334 } } } } ``` Cluster Health ```auto { "cluster_name" : "NAME", "status" : "yellow", "timed_out" : false, "number_of_nodes" : 1, "number_of_data_nodes" : 1, "active_primary_shards" : 50, "active_shards" : 50, "relocating_shards" : 0, "initializing_shards" : 0, "unassigned_shards" : 32, "delayed_unassigned_shards" : 0, "number_of_pending_tasks" : 0, "number_of_in_flight_fetch" : 0, "task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis" : 0, "active_shards_percent_as_number" : 60.97560975609756 } ``` ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/2 "2022-05-16T10:07:21Z")
> [@Bavaria](#): > > ```auto > "message" : "Waiting for all shard copies to be active", > > ``` > [@Bavaria](#): > > ```auto > "status" : "yellow", > > ``` That's why. You need to set your replica's to 0 so that your cluster is green. You will never allocate your replicas on a single node 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bavaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@Bavaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bavaria)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/3 "2022-05-16T10:12:14Z")
Do I need to set it just in the Index-Template? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/4 "2022-05-16T10:14:27Z")
Ideally, yes. You can do it dynamically thought - `curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -XPUT localhost:9200/*/_settings -d '{ "index" : { "number_of_replicas" : 0 } }'`. ---
**Author:** ![Bavaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@Bavaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bavaria)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/5 "2022-05-16T10:24:36Z")
Ok and if I do it just for the Templates, will it update for existing indices as well? Or do I need to update my indices manually? ---
**Author:** ![Bavaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@Bavaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bavaria)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/6 "2022-05-16T10:37:01Z")
Ok I just found with this command: ```auto PUT /_settings { "index":{ "number_of_replicas": 0 } } ``` And all my indices and Cluster health went to status Green. And some indices went into status "delete" Thanks for the help 😀 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-not-deleting-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/304801/7 "2022-06-13T10:37:26Z")
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