# Metricbeat 7.4 index not created daily **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, metricbeat\ **Created:** [April 6, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728 "2020-04-06T14:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kawther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kawther/32/72397_2.png) [@Kawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kawther)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/1 "2020-04-06T14:12:59Z")
Hello, I upgraded metricbeat from 6 to 7.4 . I have this problem , I realized that the index is only created with the date you started the service ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/9/0973d8e54d397912a6010155439d7469b8d05b76.png) I want to use the old format `--` GET \_cat/indices/_metricbeat_ yellow open metricbeat-7.4.0-2020.04.06-000001 kCtjwDQjQRCjDl28XWIpzw 1 1 10250 0 4.4mb 4.4mb Any idea please ? Thank's. ---
**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/2 "2020-04-06T17:43:25Z")
Hey @Kawther, welcome to discuss 🙂 This is expected, since 7.x indexes are created by index lifecycle management (ILM). ILM creates a single alias (`metricbeat-`) to where metricbeat sends the data. This alias is configured to point to an index where all the data is written. ILM starts a new index when the current index is older than a month or bigger than 50GB. This is intended, to avoid having too many small indexes, but still have some . This behaviour is controlled by an index lifecycle policy maintained by Metricbeat, and can be configured. You can read more about this here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.6/ilm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.6/ilm.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kawther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kawther/32/72397_2.png) [@Kawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kawther)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/3 "2020-04-06T20:39:01Z")
@jsoriano thank you for your answer 🙂 I tried to update rollover for my indices with index older to 1 day . ``` GET _ilm/policy/metricbeat-7.4.0 { "metricbeat-7.4.0" : { "version" : 55, "modified_date" : "2020-04-06T19:03:18.028Z", "policy" : { "phases" : { "hot" : { "min_age" : "0ms", "actions" : { "rollover" : { "max_size" : "1gb", "max_age" : "1d" } } } } } } } ``` But index policy are not realy updated . So I tried with : ``` POST /metricbeat-7.4.0/_rollover/ { "conditions": { "max_age": "1d", "max_size": "1gb" } } ``` Response: ``` { "acknowledged" : false, "shards_acknowledged" : false, "old_index" : "metricbeat-7.4.0-2020.04.06-000001", "new_index" : "metricbeat-7.4.0-2020.04.06-000002", "rolled_over" : false, "dry_run" : false, "conditions" : { "[max_size: 1gb]" : false, "[max_age: 1d]" : false } } ``` I am not able to update index policies. ---
**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/4 "2020-04-07T08:32:15Z")
@Kawther take a look to these docs: - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/\_updates\_to\_executing\_policies.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/_updates_to_executing_policies.html) - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/indices-rollover-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/indices-rollover-index.html) You would need to use something like this: ```auto PUT _ilm/policy/metricbeat-7.4.0 { "policy" : { "phases" : { "hot" : { "min_age" : "0ms", "actions" : { "rollover" : { "max_size" : "1gb", "max_age" : "1d" } } } } } } ``` This wouldn't update current index, but you can manually rollover it, and the next one will have the new policy. To force a rollover: ```auto POST metricbeat-7.4.0/_rollover ``` You can find what policies are being used by the indexes managed by `metricbeat-7.4.0` rollover alias with: ```auto GET metricbeat-7.4.0/_ilm/explain ``` Take into account that you will need to repeat the process when you upgrade Metricbeat, because the version is included in the policy name. Since 7.6.0 ([elastic/beats#14745](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/14745)) the version is not included, so Metricbeat continues using custom policies if defined. ---
**Author:** ![Kawther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kawther/32/72397_2.png) [@Kawther](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kawther)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/5 "2020-04-09T11:15:23Z")
@jsoriano Thank you very much, you solved my problem 🥳 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-7-4-index-not-created-daily/226728/6 "2020-05-07T11:15:25Z")
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