# Kibana ILM manages index snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ilm-manages-index-snapshot/233779>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ilm-manages-index-snapshot/233779 "2020-05-21T17:10:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![robhuang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@robhuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robhuang)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ilm-manages-index-snapshot/233779/1 "2020-05-21T17:10:46Z")

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In our hot-warm-cold cluster on version 7.4, once the retention period is reached, we snapshot the indices in cold nodes and then delete them from the cluster. These two steps are currently being taken manually.  
Is there a way to let ILM policy handles index snapshot before getting into `delete` phrase?

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**Author:** ![mathur7vidit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@mathur7vidit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathur7vidit)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ilm-manages-index-snapshot/233779/2 "2020-05-22T16:04:18Z")

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this is available as a part of index lifecycle management policy itself. there a delete phase which you can utilize.

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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 19, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ilm-manages-index-snapshot/233779/3 "2020-06-19T16:04:20Z")

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