commands for Kibana console to play with ilm/rollover/aliases

es-ilm-rollover-setup.text

DELETE _ilm/policy/event_log_policy   
DELETE _template/event_log_template
DELETE event-log-000001
DELETE event-log-000002

PUT _ilm/policy/event_log_policy   
{
  "policy": {                       
    "phases": {
      "hot": {                      
        "actions": {
          "rollover": {             
            "max_docs": "1"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PUT _template/event_log_template
{
  "index_patterns": ["event-log-*"],                 
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 1,
    "number_of_replicas": 1,
    "index.lifecycle.name": "event_log_policy",      
    "index.lifecycle.rollover_alias": "event-log"    
  }
}

PUT event-log-000001
{
  "aliases": {
    "event-log": {
      "is_write_index": true
    }
  }
}

POST event-log/_doc/
{
  "message": "a dummy entry 1"
}

POST event-log/_refresh

POST /event-log/_rollover
{
  "conditions": {
    "max_docs":   "1"
  }
}

POST event-log/_doc/
{
  "message": "a dummy entry 2"
}

GET event-log/_search/
GET event-log
GET event-log-000001