Elasticsearch Curator
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
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Elasticsearch Curator is a tool that helps you automate and manage index lifecycles, providing advanced control over your Elasticsearch data. While most use cases are now handled by Index lifecycle management (ILM)—included with a Basic license—Curator remains a valuable option for scenarios requiring additional functionality or customization.
If ILM provides the functionality to manage your index lifecycle and you have at least a Basic license, use ILM instead of Curator. Many Elastic Stack components use ILM by default.
If you're looking for additional functionality for managing your index lifecycle, you can read more in Curator index management about how Elasticsearch Curator can help for your use case.