Logstash - Elastichsearch Output - ILM

[Jurilz]

Good day,

I'm trying to establish an Index Lifecycle Management for my indices by using the elasticsearch output in Logstash.

This is the elasticsearch output plugin config:

output {
  if "tomcat" in [type] {
    elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["https://elasticsearch:9200"]
    index => "filebeat-tomcat-7.10.0"
    user => "elastic"
    password => "<pw>"
    ssl => true
    cacert => "<path-to>-ca.crt"
    ilm_rollover_alias => "filebeat-tomcat"
    ilm_pattern => "000001"
    ilm_policy => "logs"
    }
  } else if "apache_access" in [type] {
    elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["https://elasticsearch:9200"]
    index => "filebeat-apache_access-7.10.0"
    user => "elastic"
    password => "<pw>"
    ssl => true
    cacert => "<path-to>-ca.crt"
    ilm_rollover_alias => "filebeat-apache_access"
    ilm_pattern => "000001"
    ilm_policy => "logs"
    }
  } else if "apache_error" in [type] {
    elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["https://elasticsearch:9200"]
    index => "filebeat-apache_error-7.10.0"
    user => "elastic"
    password => "<pw>"
    ssl => true
    cacert => "<path-to>-ca.crt"
    ilm_rollover_alias => "filebeat-apache_error"
    ilm_pattern => "000001"
    ilm_policy => "logs"
    }
  } else {
    elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["https://elasticsearch:9200"]
    index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{[type]}-%{[@metadata][version]}"
    user => "elastic"
    password => "<pw>"
    ssl => true
    cacert => "<path-to>-ca.crt"
    }
  }
}

The indices are created with th indx name e. g. filebeat-tomcat-000001.

But in Kibana I get the error:

Index lifecycle error
illegal_argument_exception: setting [index.lifecycle.rollover_alias] for index [filebeat-apache_access-000001] is empty or not defined

And indeed a look at the filebeat-tomcat-000001 settings tells me:

"defaults": {
    "index": {
      ...
      "lifecycle": {
        "parse_origination_date": "false",
        "indexing_complete": "false",
        "rollover_alias": "",
        "origination_date": "-1"
      },
 ....

Did I configure the elasticsearch output plugin wrongly or can I add the rollover_alias through the Rollover Index API?

Any help would be very much appreciated. TIA!