# Index not rolling over
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603 "2019-05-30T20:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@xyz2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xyz2)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/1 "2019-05-30T20:14:33Z")
Hi
I performed below steps as per [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/27967](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/27967)
Index rolls over only once but not after that.
I have logstash setup with ilm settings as below
ilm\_enabled =\> true
ilm\_rollover\_alias =\> "my\_index\_alias"
ilm\_pattern =\> "000001"
ilm\_policy =\> "my\_policy"
The ilm/explain command for first index says complete status and managed:true
For 2nd index, managed:false
And 3rd index is not created at all
Is there something else that needs to be set ??
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### Author:  [@gbrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gbrown)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/2 "2019-05-30T22:26:10Z")
This sounds similar to what occurs when an ILM policy with Rollover is used, but the index template either doesn't exist or doesn't have `index.lifecycle.name` set.
Could you post the index template that's being used for your indices? Do you have any of `template`, `manage_template`, or `template_overwrite` set in your Logstash output config? Have you manually changed the index template that Logstash installs?
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### Author:  [@xyz2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xyz2)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/3 "2019-05-31T17:27:29Z")
It has index template with below properties included in setting
"index.lifecycle.name": "my\_policy",
"index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias": "my\_index\_alias"
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### Author:  [@jakelandis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jakelandis)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/4 "2019-05-31T18:12:49Z")
Can you share the output the following for anything that has logstash in the name ?
```auto
GET _cat/templates?v
GET _template/
```
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### Author:  [@xyz2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xyz2)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/5 "2019-06-03T17:50:01Z")
{
```
"index_patterns": ["my_index-*"],
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 1,
"number_of_replicas": 1,
"index.lifecycle.name": "my_policy",
"index.lifecycle.rollover_alias": "my_index_alias"
}
```
}
Have set below template and template\_name in logstash output.
template\_name =\> "test\_template"
template =\> "/home/user1/test-template.json" along with
ilm\_enabled =\> true
ilm\_rollover\_alias =\> "my\_index\_alias"
ilm\_pattern =\> "000001"
ilm\_policy =\> "my\_policy"
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-rolling-over/183603/6 "2019-07-01T17:50:02Z")
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