kibana/x-pack/plugins/index_lifecycle_management

Index Lifecycle Management

Testing

Quick steps for testing ILM in Index Management

You can test that the Frozen badge, phase filtering, and lifecycle information is surfaced in Index Management by running this series of requests in Console:

PUT /_ilm/policy/full
{
  "policy": {
    "phases" : {
      "hot" : {
        "min_age" : "0ms",
        "actions" : {
          "rollover" : {
            "max_docs" : 1
          }
        }
      },
      "warm" : {
        "min_age" : "15s",
        "actions" : {
          "forcemerge" : {
            "max_num_segments" : 1
          },
          "shrink" : {
            "number_of_shards" : 1
          }
        }
      },
      "cold" : {
        "min_age" : "30s",
        "actions" : {
          "freeze": {}
        }
      },
      "delete" : {
        "min_age" : "1d",
        "actions" : {
          "delete" : { }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT _template/test
{
  "index_patterns": ["test-*"],
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 3,
    "number_of_replicas": 0,
    "index.lifecycle.name": "full",
    "index.lifecycle.rollover_alias": "test-alias"
  }
}

PUT /test-000001
{
  "aliases": {
    "test-alias": {
      "is_write_index": true
    }
  }
}

PUT test-alias/_doc/1
{
  "a": "a"
}

PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "transient": {
    "logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.indexlifecycle": "TRACE",
    "logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.indexlifecycle": "TRACE",
    "logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ilm": "TRACE",
    "logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm": "TRACE",
    "indices.lifecycle.poll_interval": "10s"
  }
}

Then go into Index Management and, after about 1 minute, you'll see a frozen index and you'll be able to filter by the various lifecycle phases and statuses.

Next, add the Kibana sample data and attach the full policy to the index that gets created. After about a minute, there should be an error on this index. When you click the index you'll see ILM information in the detail panel as well as an error. You can dismiss the error by clicking Manage > Retry lifecycle step.

Data tier notifications

When creating or editing an ILM policy the UI should notify users that under certain conditions their data will not be moved to a tier corresponding to a phase. For instance, when a cluster only has hot-tier nodes. We test the UI with this cluster state by starting an ES node with the data_hot role. Using this command:

yarn es snapshot --license=trial -E node.roles=data_hot,master,data_content

This will create a cluster where we have a single node that belongs to the hot-tier. In the data allocation section of both the warm and cold phase you should see notice like the following:

Default configuration for a node is that it belongs to all tiers, in which case you should not see this notice. Test this by running:

yarn es snapshot --license=trial