# Skipping rollover option

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750 "2019-11-27T19:12:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ark516](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@ark516](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ark516)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/1 "2019-11-27T19:12:34Z")

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I have enabled skipping rollover option while using index lifyce cycle policy . But ILM still tries to perform rollover.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/skipping-rollover.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/skipping-rollover.html)

below is the error we see

**illegal\_argument\_exception: setting [index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias] for index [oracle-alert-fields-2019.47] is empty or not defined**

we are doing index rollover every day at logstash. we are trying to use lifecycle policy to delete indices whey they are x number of days old.

below are index settings

{  
"index.query.default\_field": [  
"\*"  
],  
"index.refresh\_interval": "1s",  
"index.write.wait\_for\_active\_shards": "1",  
"index.lifecycle.name": "cdldev\_policy",  
"index.lifecycle.indexing\_complete": "true",  
"index.blocks.read\_only\_allow\_delete": "false",  
"index.priority": "100",  
"index.number\_of\_replicas": "1"  
}

is anyone faced similar issue? are there any alternatives ways to fix roll over error while using iLM?

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**Author:** ![ark516](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@ark516](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ark516)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/2 "2019-12-12T19:46:49Z")

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Hi  
@alisongoryachev or @cufflinks , can you please help here?

sorry to tag , trying to get somehelp on this issue.

trying to understand why skipping rollover option is not functioning on the ILM policy

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ark516](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@ark516](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ark516)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/3 "2019-12-13T15:07:11Z")

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i see a related post on this , but dont see a solution on this

> [@Index Lifecycle Policy requires rollover and adjacent settings even when rollover is disabled](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-lifecycle-policy-requires-rollover-and-adjacent-settings-even-when-rollover-is-disabled/194588):
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> It would appear that ILM is broken once you decide you wish to use ILM without rollover. Note that I do not under any circumstance wish to activate rollover. We use daily indices. Please do not suggest I activate rollover and be done with it. The purpose of the policy is to move daily indices to warm nodes after 21 days and then delete them after 100 days. This is the only thing I wish to do. This is what the policy looks like: { "data-hot-warm-delete" : { "version" : 1, "modified\_date"…

Tagging @oysteila if you have got any solution here.

Thanks your time.

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**Author:** ![ark516](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@ark516](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ark516)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/4 "2019-12-17T14:58:46Z")

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Tagging @rashmi for help on this ILM skipping error.

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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:** [January 14, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/5 "2020-01-14T14:58:47Z")

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skipping-rollover-option/209750/6 "2020-01-28T15:34:12Z")

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Hi @cjcenizal - this post needs some ILM rollover knowledge- can you please help ?

thanks  
Rashmi