# \[newbie\] Going from Curator to ILM

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [March 27, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595 "2023-03-27T09:30:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jeroenp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jeroenp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeroenp)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595/1 "2023-03-27T09:30:26Z")

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Hi,

I'm rather new with Elastic and one of the things on our to-do list is to configure ILM on our ELK stack and stop the use of Curator. I've read some stuff about and watched howto's on using ILM, but are there any considerations and things to look out for ?  
Or a best practices ?

Thank you very much,

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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:** [March 28, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595/2 "2023-03-28T22:48:20Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

Best practises are really implementation of our typical shard sizes - 30 to 50 gig - and the use of hot/warm/cold (or any combo of that).

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**Author:** ![jeroenp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jeroenp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeroenp)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595/3 "2023-03-29T06:19:11Z")

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Thank you Mark ! 🙂

Can I use Curator and ILM next to each other for a while ? Something tells me that's not a good idea 😉

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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:** [March 29, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595/4 "2023-03-29T06:45:23Z")

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No it's not a good idea, you are likely to run into conflicts.

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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:** [April 26, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-going-from-curator-to-ilm/328595/5 "2023-04-26T06:45:38Z")

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