# Manage cross-clusters index-life-cycle-policy

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ccs-cross-cluster-search\
**Created:** [January 6, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867 "2020-01-06T09:53:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Aviad\_Bitton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviad_bitton/32/47196_2.png) [@Aviad\_Bitton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aviad_Bitton)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867/1 "2020-01-06T09:53:08Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![wylie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wylie/32/81794_2.png) [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867/2 "2020-01-06T16:35:47Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867/3 "2020-01-06T17:33:54Z")

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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.

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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:** [February 3, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-cross-clusters-index-life-cycle-policy/213867/4 "2020-02-03T17:34:00Z")

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