# Indexes not migrating from hot to cold

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-not-migrating-from-hot-to-cold/220915>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-not-migrating-from-hot-to-cold/220915 "2020-02-25T18:47:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![amcneill3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@amcneill3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amcneill3)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-not-migrating-from-hot-to-cold/220915/1 "2020-02-25T18:47:08Z")

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Hi. I have a Hot Cold setup (two nodes hot, one node cold). It does not appear any of my indexes in hot ever migrate to cold, given my ILM policy. For example:

 ![Screen Shot 2020-02-25 at 1.44.24 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/16ccb1fb538fa1c141ec38a131c07fa6cc03904c.png)

 ![Screen Shot 2020-02-25 at 1.44.42 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/4/941c1b01177a086186b40826ca86224d3623f320.png)

But index I expect to be cold by now is still in hot phase:

 ![Screen Shot 2020-02-25 at 1.46.21 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/2/023cdac7345c9d4b86b23076ac0815feb0b8073a.png)

Is it because index has not resolved or completed rollover phase? How can I force rollover or disable rollover to try to get this index to finally go to cold phase?

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**Author:** ![amcneill3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@amcneill3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amcneill3)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-not-migrating-from-hot-to-cold/220915/2 "2020-02-27T21:59:53Z")

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It turns out I had a couple things going on:

1). Running out of shards per node (1000 shard limit)  
2). Not having properly configured write indexes for the rollover steps, preventing rollover from happening

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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:** [March 26, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-not-migrating-from-hot-to-cold/220915/3 "2020-03-26T21:59:56Z")

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