# Need to apply ILM policy on existing index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290984>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 5, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290984 "2021-12-05T13:29:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mangeshmj1992](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@mangeshmj1992](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mangeshmj1992)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290984/1 "2021-12-05T13:29:56Z")

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Hello team,  
I have created one index kafka-facebook and missed to apply ILM policies.  
Now all data is going into S3 bucket like: partials:kafka-facebook-2021-12-04-000035

The above index has almost 500 GB of data. can you please help me to apply new ILM policy without deleting existing data

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290984/2 "2021-12-05T23:49:44Z")

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Please don't create multiple topics on the same question - [Need to apply ILM policy on existing index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290987)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-apply-ilm-policy-on-existing-index/290984/3 "2021-12-05T23:49:48Z")

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