Manage cross-clusters index-life-cycle-policy

[Aviad_Bitton]

Hi,
I got a cross-cluster search over some clusters.
Can i manage the retention/index-life-cycle-policy of these clusters from the cross-cluster kibana ?
Is there a best practice to do so?

[wylie (Wylie Conlon)]

If I understand correctly, I don't think this is possible. My understanding of cross-cluster search is that it is only search, and that Kibana manages its local cluster.

[cjcenizal]

Wylie's right. Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) supports managing indices on the local cluster, but not remote clusters. To manage indices on remote clusters, you'll need to create ILM policies on those clusters.