# Rollover alias vs index alias

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-vs-index-alias/319698
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 24, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-vs-index-alias/319698 "2022-11-24T04:05:47Z")
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### Author: ![mikhatanu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mikhatanu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikhatanu)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-vs-index-alias/319698/1 "2022-11-24T04:05:47Z")

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Hello, I am going to apply ILM to an index template from Kibana. When applying to index template, there's a field of "alias for rollover index", but i have set and alias already in index template. What is the difference of index template alias and rollover index alias? Should i set both to the same value?

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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: [November 30, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-vs-index-alias/319698/2 "2022-11-30T00:42:01Z")

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Are you referring to `rollover_alias`?

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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: [December 28, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-alias-vs-index-alias/319698/3 "2022-12-28T00:42:23Z")

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