# Using only Kibana to preserve monthly data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037 "2021-11-12T03:40:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![MinwooKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MinwooKim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MinwooKim)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037/1 "2021-11-12T03:40:29Z")

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Using ILM, I am trying to confingure an index to only preserve monthly data. This index has a batch with a bulkprocessor to insert data every day.

I intended to configure an ILM like this.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/b/6b67bb32c0432e98dbd608ddc2b220d52998a615.png)

However, for some indexes that don't divide somehow...(like standard\_category here)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/0/30b9cff84e9ef881c549f44102ff92147943e988.png)

gets error whenever I enable rollovers in hot phases...  
How can I resolve this..?

Furthermore, how can I make undivided indexes to divide like rep- series up above..?

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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 14, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037/2 "2021-11-14T21:33:09Z")

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> [@MinwooKim](#):
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> However, for some indexes that don't divide somehow...(like standard\_category here)

Is that index actually an alias you setup with ILM?

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**Author:** ![MinwooKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MinwooKim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MinwooKim)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037/3 "2021-11-15T02:18:41Z")

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I didn't understand clearly.... I did put a template with it..

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/d/3d798e62b8672bb72e598fd1c2678bb9a311f38d.png)

put returns this..  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/d/6dac3dc0fc19a1df284a74ac47c296d1ae58daee.png)

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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 13, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-only-kibana-to-preserve-monthly-data/289037/4 "2021-12-13T02:19:08Z")

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