From ead905dba4d9b78f9829ff09103196e2d98a6e00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nhat Nguyen Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 20:51:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: add migration help for rollover alias #28110 --- docs/reference/migration/migrate_6_2.asciidoc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/migration/migrate_6_2.asciidoc b/docs/reference/migration/migrate_6_2.asciidoc index 213f0d556521c..81dac028ce300 100644 --- a/docs/reference/migration/migrate_6_2.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/migration/migrate_6_2.asciidoc @@ -51,3 +51,9 @@ distributions and use the default logging location use `/var/log/elasticsearch` otherwise if you have installed from the `tar.gz` or `zip` archive distributions and use the default logging location use `logs/gc.log`; otherwise, set the location to the absolute path to your log files. + +=== Rollover alias +A rollover request in Elasticsearch 6.2.0 or later will be aborted if the same +alias is found in the matching index templates. This change is to prevent the alias +from pointing to multiple indices during rollover. If your index templates already +contain the same alias, you should remove it by updating the index templates. \ No newline at end of file