# Lifecycle policy with movement delay option

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588 "2022-03-02T07:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon17386273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@anon17386273](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon17386273)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588/1 "2022-03-02T07:56:09Z")

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Hi

I have a lot of different daily indices tagged to the same lifecycle policy. Every day 12am, ilm will start to move several of these daily indices to the different tiers.

I was wondering if there is some kind of time delay option to stagger the movement. What i notice now is that every day 12am, throughput will spike up

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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:** [March 2, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588/2 "2022-03-02T23:15:05Z")

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An ILM policy will check every 10 minutes by default, you might find reducing this will mitigate some of that bulky load - [`poll_interval`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.0/ilm-with-existing-indices.html).

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588/3 "2022-03-03T07:16:38Z")

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Could you share a copy of your policy? Also what version are you using exactly?

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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 31, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lifecycle-policy-with-movement-delay-option/298588/4 "2022-03-31T07:17:28Z")

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