Monitoring elastic search retention period not working

[Hitesh_Baldaniya1 (Hitesh Baldaniya)]

Hi Team,

We have enabled monitoring on cloud.elastic server which is dedicated monitoring server.

We have added following setting on monitoring server.
xpack.monitoring.history.duration we set it as '1d' still the older indexes were not removed automatically.

It is not working as expected and disk is getting filled with data and after couple of week server is getting restarted/stopped, how can we solve this issue?

[chrisronline (Chris Roberson)]

Hi @Hitesh_Baldaniya1,

What is your current license level for the monitoring cluster on Elastic Cloud?

[Hitesh_Baldaniya1 (Hitesh Baldaniya)]

Hi @chrisronline,

Current license level is basic only .

[chrisronline (Chris Roberson)]

HI @Hitesh_Baldaniya1,

Unfortunately, the basic license does not include this feature. See: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/license/XPackLicenseState.java#L515