Elastic Stack is quite capable of running blazing fast queries against your data. However, the more data you have, the more time it will take to query it. Most of the times, however, Elastic Stack will not be the mechanism you use for long time data retention. Consequently you will have to get rid of the old data. Let's find out how. Brief overview of steps required Pick a naming convention Create index lifecycle management policy Create an index template that connects the alias and the ilm policy Create an index Associate an alias with the index Let's dig into the details. Pick a naming convention Depending on the size of your company, your topology, team and org structure, you will probably have a Elastic Stack deployment that is shared between several teams and used by multiple services (distributed tracing benefits). Namespaces is a useful notion that we can leverage while naming ELK objects, even though the notion itself is not directly suppo