I’m using an (ISM) policy to make indices read-only at 7 days, shrink them at 8 days, and then delete the original index after shrinking. The shrink step succeeds and the -shrunk index is created (aliases switch correctly), but the source/original index never gets deleted. Everything else in the pol…

@mbdevops does the index have an alias? if not, you will need to remove the "switch_aliases": true,

SM shrink works, but source index isn’t deleted afterward: how should I delete the original?

mbdevops September 10, 2025, 2:14pm 21

This was the fix! Thank you. I was still referencing the old alias!

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