# Rollover alias to new index **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629 "2020-07-26T06:01:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/1 "2020-07-26T06:01:07Z")
hi, I created a rollover index and alias. The alias is pointing to new as well as old index when i try to read data from alias. how can i remove the old index from alias? Thanks Vicky ---
**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:** [July 26, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/2 "2020-07-26T22:32:49Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html#indices-aliases-api-remove-alias-ex](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html#indices-aliases-api-remove-alias-ex) describes that process. ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/3 "2020-07-27T03:36:46Z")
Hi, i created an ILM policy to rollover, then a template and last bootstrap. All is working fine and alias is writing to new index on rollover. But i need to remove the old index also, so if i read the alias it points to new index only. Old indexes stay as it is. Can i do in one of the 3 steps i mentioned? Thanks ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/4 "2020-07-27T03:39:05Z")
Do you want to remove the index from the write alias? ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/5 "2020-07-27T03:47:30Z")
no, i want the alias when read, just points to latest write index, not the old indexes. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/6 "2020-07-27T03:48:36Z")
It'd help if you shared the policy you are using. ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/7 "2020-07-27T03:49:51Z")
{ "policy": { "policy\_id": "rollover\_policy", "description": "roll over after 1000 docs", "last\_updated\_time": 1595624651960, "schema\_version": 1, "error\_notification": null, "default\_state": "hot", "states": [ { "name": "hot", "actions": [ { "rollover": { "min\_doc\_count": 1000 } } ], "transitions": } ] } ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/8 "2020-07-27T03:52:26Z")
Ok, thanks. What about the index template you used? Please format your code/logs/config using the `` button, or markdown style back ticks. It helps to make things easy to read which helps us help you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/9 "2020-07-27T03:54:10Z")
PUT \_template/rollover\_template { "index\_patterns": ["test-es-index\_dt-\*"], "settings": { "number\_of\_shards": 5, "number\_of\_replicas": 1, "index.opendistro.index\_state\_management.policy\_id": "rollover\_policy", "index.opendistro.index\_state\_management.rollover\_alias": "test-es-index\_dt" } } ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/10 "2020-07-27T04:41:27Z")
Oh, is this open distro? ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/11 "2020-07-27T12:43:17Z")
yes this open distro & i am using it on AWS ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/12 "2020-07-27T21:20:26Z")
Ah ok, then this is not ILM, it's something that they've built for it and we cannot provide support for it sorry. ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/13 "2020-07-27T22:19:48Z")
But can you suggest on the strategy or concept to achieve this in ILM? Thanks ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/14 "2020-07-27T22:26:44Z")
You won't be able to use ILM, it's not part of open distro. ---
**Author:** ![vicky0639](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/34f0e0/32.png) [@vicky0639](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicky0639)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/15 "2020-07-27T22:32:06Z")
I was able to use and define the ILM inside AWS kibana. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/16 "2020-07-27T22:38:55Z")
If you are indeed using open distro, the ILM that we build and release is not part of it. As I understand it, they built their own, similar thing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-to-new-index/242629/17 "2020-08-24T22:39:01Z")
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