# What is best practice for indexing for hot/warm/cold...daily indices?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-best-practice-for-indexing-for-hot-warm-cold-daily-indices/278196>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-module\
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-best-practice-for-indexing-for-hot-warm-cold-daily-indices/278196 "2021-07-08T14:15:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Garry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Garry)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-best-practice-for-indexing-for-hot-warm-cold-daily-indices/278196/1 "2021-07-08T14:15:16Z")

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I have a ILM policy for 7 days in hot, 23 days in warm and the rest in cold.  
Should I have a new index created every day for this?

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-best-practice-for-indexing-for-hot-warm-cold-daily-indices/278196/2 "2021-07-09T09:00:58Z")

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Actually it's up to your needs. Please take a look at: [Tutorial: Automate rollover with ILM | Elasticsearch Guide [7.13] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/getting-started-index-lifecycle-management.html)

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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:** [August 6, 2021, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-best-practice-for-indexing-for-hot-warm-cold-daily-indices/278196/3 "2021-08-06T11:01:27Z")

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