# Need to create index on weekly basis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 12, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893 "2016-08-12T07:30:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/1 "2016-08-12T07:30:08Z")

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Hi Team,

I want to create my index on weekly basis, Can You suggest any method

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/2 "2016-08-12T07:33:50Z")

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Use

```
index => "whatever-%{+yyyy.ww}"

```

in your elasticsearch output configuration.

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**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/3 "2016-08-12T07:34:28Z")

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ohk...Thanks

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**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/4 "2016-08-17T05:52:55Z")

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Logs are not pushing properly, getting below errors:

Flushing buffer at interval {:instance=\>"#\<LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::Buffer:0x18afa0e4 @operations\_mutex=#Mutex:0x16684d81, @max\_size=500, @operations\_lock=#Java::JavaUtilConcurrentLocks::ReentrantLock:0x1257cb94, @submit\_proc=#Proc:0x32186534@/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-2.7.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:57, @logger=#\<Cabin::Channel:0x664832b3 @metrics=#\<Cabin::Metrics:0x4aef4e85 @metrics\_lock=#Mutex:0x377ab8f5, @metrics={}, @channel=#\<Cabin::Channel:0x664832b3 ...\>\>,

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/5 "2016-08-17T05:58:58Z")

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That's not an error message.

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**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/6 "2016-08-17T06:00:24Z")

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but logs are not pushing to elasticsearch.....index is not creating

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/7 "2016-08-17T06:09:02Z")

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Okay, sure, but you have to look elsewhere for the problem. Without more details about your setup we can't help.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-index-on-weekly-basis/57893/8 "2017-07-06T04:43:10Z")

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