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In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.

Relates to #39526


This is a draft because, well, it's a draft: the writing needs some editing and there's a couple parts that aren't done.

In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
@AthenaEryma AthenaEryma added >docs General docs changes WIP :Data Management/ILM+SLM DO NOT USE. Use ":StorageEngine/ILM" or ":Distributed Coordination/SLM" instead. v8.0.0 v7.0.2 v7.3.0 v7.1.2 v7.2.1 labels Jun 26, 2019
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LGTM, I left one really minor comment

PUT _cluster/settings
{
"transient": {
"indices.lifecycle.poll_interval": "1m" <1>
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I think this is missing a 1 caption below this example

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LGTM a second time I guess? I forgot I already review this :X

@AthenaEryma AthenaEryma merged commit 277033a into elastic:master Aug 5, 2019
AthenaEryma added a commit to AthenaEryma/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit to AthenaEryma/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit to AthenaEryma/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit to AthenaEryma/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit to AthenaEryma/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
AthenaEryma added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2019
In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data
shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical
indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide
which gives an example of how to do that.
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