# Index rotation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150 "2021-05-27T07:46:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![humartinez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/humartinez/32/46395_2.png) [@humartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humartinez)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150/1 "2021-05-27T07:46:51Z")

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Hello,  
I would like to know if there is a way to rotate an index for a period of time. I have an app that writes to a fix ES index name and I need to to rotate the index lets say after one day "app-index-0001", the next day "app-index-0002" and so while mantaining the original app-index and after a week delete the old index. Could index rollover help me, or that is for another use case?  
Basicaly I need to rotate my index to apply an ILM, so I can get rid of data of more than 1 week, and I cant change the index name on my app.

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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:** [May 27, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150/2 "2021-05-27T23:21:57Z")

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[ILM](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html) is build just for this.

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**Author:** ![humartinez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/humartinez/32/46395_2.png) [@humartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humartinez)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150/3 "2021-05-29T08:41:54Z")

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I finally used ILM with rollover.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-rotation/274150/4 "2021-06-26T08:42:33Z")

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