ISM settings

We don’t recommend changing these settings; the defaults should work well for most use cases.

Index State Management (ISM) stores its configuration in the .opendistro-ism-config index. Don’t modify this index without using the ISM API operations.

All settings are available using the OpenSearch _cluster/settings operation. None require a restart, and all can be marked persistent or transient.

Audit history indices

If you don’t want to disable ISM audit history or shorten the retention period, you can create an index template to reduce the shard count of the history indices:

PUT _index_template/ism_history_indices
{
  "index_patterns": [
    ".opendistro-ism-managed-index-history-*"
  ],
  "template": {
    "settings": {
      "number_of_shards": 1,
      "number_of_replicas": 0
    }
  }
}