Update lifecycle policy
editUpdate lifecycle policy
editYou can update an existing lifecycle policy to fix mistakes or change
strategies for newly created indices. It is possible to update policy definitions
and an index’s index.lifecycle.name
settings independently. To prevent the situation
that phase definitions are modified while currently being executed on an index, each index
will keep the version of the current phase definition it began execution with until it completes.
This also means that changes to min_age
will not be propagated. If a new policy is set that
introduces a later min_age
for the currently executing phase, that new min_age
will not
be picked up by the update.
There are three scenarios for examining the behavior updating policies and their effects on policy execution on indices.