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Support add rollover alias to Index settings in Index Management GUI #39458

Open yaronp68 opened 5 years ago

yaronp68 commented 5 years ago

Describe the feature: When attaching an ILM policy to an index, there's a critical step missing of creating the rollover write alias image

Describe a specific use case for the feature:

When a user updates a policy and want to apply the new version to an existing index. In this case the user detach the policy which removes the cached version of the policy with the part in the index settings that specifies the policy name and the rollover alias. So when attempting to reattaching the policy to the index, there will be an error about the missing alias. Although the user can fix in in edit index settings or in the console, it might be a better UX to allow the user to specify the rollover alias in the dialog and not just to select the policy name

elasticmachine commented 5 years ago

Pinging @elastic/es-ui

jonnymccullagh commented 1 year ago

I've hit this problem today @elastic/es-ui Furthermore, when I try to add an alias via the console I get:

The provided expressions [.ds-metricbeat-8.4.2-2022.12.06-000001] match a backing index belonging to data stream [metricbeat-8.4.2]. Data stream backing indices don't support aliases.

I guess I am making some newbie mistakes that could be avoided in the UI?

elasticmachine commented 2 months ago

Pinging @elastic/kibana-management (Team:Kibana Management)