Hello all ! In the delete phase of the ILM policy, we can delete x days or x hours from rollover. But what is exactly this "rollover" ? : Is it the date when index has been renewed as he reached max size (or documents or age) ? What about if I have hot/warm/cold architecture ? Rollover will…

Rollover is when it reaches the max limit (age or size) and then creates a new write index under the alias. It can happen independent of hot/warm/cold, as you can roll indices on a single node for eg.

Rollover exact definition in ILM policy

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Travis December 4, 2020, 9:14am 3

Thanks for this confirmation @warkolm !

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Rollover exact definition in ILM policy

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