# Creating rollover alias to only point to the current day?
**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265
**Category:** Index Management
**Created:** [October 10, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265 "2025-10-10T11:54:44Z")
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### Author:  [@OpenAndreas](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/OpenAndreas)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265/1 "2025-10-10T11:54:44Z")
**Versions** (relevant - OpenSearch/Dashboard/Server OS/Browser): 2.19.2
**Describe the issue** : I would like to create an alias containing only the logs of “today”. So I need an alias containing exactly one index for today like “logs-today” pointing to index “logs-2025-10-10”, and that this alias will point to exactly one index tomorrow, ie. then to “logs-2025-10-11”. Currently newly created indices can be added but not old ones removed.
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### Author:  [@Anthony](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Anthony)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265/2 "2025-10-10T13:48:12Z")
@OpenAndreas Great question, there is no built in way to achieve this currently, You would need to create a cron/scheduled task to execute script similar to the following:
```auto
export TZ=Europe/Dublin
today=$(date +%F); yday=$(date -v-1d +%F) \
&& curl -k -u admin:admin -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST 'https://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d "{
\"actions\": [
{ \"remove\": { \"index\": \"logs-${yday}\", \"alias\": \"logs-today\" } },
{ \"add\": { \"index\": \"logs-${today}\", \"alias\": \"logs-today\" } }
]
}"
```
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### Author:  [@OpenAndreas](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/OpenAndreas)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265/3 "2025-10-10T14:03:16Z")
Yes, I had that thought, too. This just feels like a workaround. But I will go this path if no solution within Opensearch shows up.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/creating-rollover-alias-to-only-point-to-the-current-day/27265/4 "2025-12-09T14:03:23Z")
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