# Rollover max number reached

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953 "2018-01-25T02:13:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f19dbf/32.png) [@Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik_Ramachandran)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953/1 "2018-01-25T02:13:36Z")

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What will rollover api do if max rolling numbers are reached? -000001 to -999999

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953/2 "2018-01-25T08:41:23Z")

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you can see the relevant code snippet here [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/rollover/TransportRolloverAction.java#L184-L198](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/rollover/TransportRolloverAction.java#L184-L198)

However this discussion is rather artifical, as having a million indices is the bigger problem when this happens. You will have a bad time before that already.

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**Author:** ![Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f19dbf/32.png) [@Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik_Ramachandran)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953/3 "2018-01-25T17:56:08Z")

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🙂 Agreed

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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:** [February 22, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-max-number-reached/116953/4 "2018-02-22T17:57:00Z")

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