Hi, I want to set up an index template for data coming from Zenarmor (using Elasticsearch 8.14.3) When the indices are created without an index template, the names are like this "zen2_conn-240726", where 240726 represents the current day. As soon as I have created an index template that matches zen…

Probably there are multiple index templates and some index templates override the settings. You can use Simulate index API and see which index templates (both composable and legacy) affect for the new index creation. GET _index_template/_simulate_index/zen2_conn-240726 Note: You can increase the p…

[image] Musab_Dogan: GET _index_template/_simulate_index/zen2_conn-240726 When chaning the index pattern to match "123", the result is empty: {} When the index pattern matches the name, the correct one is called, I set the number of replicas to 555 to have an indicator. So the template is b…

You're welcome Andre, thanks for your feedback! It looks correct to me. When you check the index pattern 123 it should return empty results if there is no index pattern that include every index like *. The template you shared is a _component_template . There must be an _index_template too.

So the naming issue went away by itself (?). I decided to leave it at that with the index template activated. When I returned an hour later the zen2_conn_write index was gone and the index was created like before with the name in it. Haven't looked to find this behaviour documented somewhere yet. Bu…

Just tried to reproduce by deleting the index and have it created again. In fact, the index is newly created using the _write suffix. It seems that at the full hour, the index was renamed to contain the date instead of write. So there seems to be some background magic going on that is configured so…

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Musab_Dogan (Musab Dogan) July 29, 2024, 11:13am 7

You're welcome Andre. Happy to hear it fixed.

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