# Index rollover not working for custom indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-not-working-for-custom-indices/245853>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-not-working-for-custom-indices/245853 "2020-08-21T05:02:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jijo.john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jijo.john](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jijo.john)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-not-working-for-custom-indices/245853/1 "2020-08-21T05:02:41Z")

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Hi Team,

Kindly help us with the below error , we are having a custom index created and rollover is not working. Below is the error i am getting.

illegal\_argument\_exception: index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias [ciscobeat-7.6.2] does not point to index [cisco-beat-2020.08.21]

Regards,  
Jijo John

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**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:** [September 3, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-not-working-for-custom-indices/245853/2 "2020-09-03T23:51:57Z")

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Let's continue the discussion here - [Index rollover given an error for alias](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-given-an-error-for-alias/246049)

Please only create one topic in future, it makes it harder to help when there's multiple topics on the same question open 🙂

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**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:** [September 3, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rollover-not-working-for-custom-indices/245853/3 "2020-09-03T23:52:01Z")

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