Create Indices on custom interval instead of daily

[kunalekawde]

Hello Team,
Wanted to know if there is a way to create indices for custom interval instead of daily?

We have an issue where, when the daily index is created for jaeger-search, it's missing some of the services (although spans for these services are received by collector). If the collector pod is restarted, services get added to the index correctly.
To debug this, we want to lower the daily index creation to hours may be to reproduce quickly.

Thanks

[dosubot[bot]]

Hello @kunalekawde! 👋 I'm here to assist you with any bugs, questions, or contributions you have. Let's squash those bugs together!

Yes, you can create indices for a custom interval such as hourly in Jaeger. You can achieve this by setting the es.index-rollover-frequency-services and es.index-rollover-frequency-spans options to "hour". This will rotate the Jaeger service and span indices over an hourly period, creating indices like "jaeger-service-yyyy-MM-dd-HH" and "jaeger-span-yyyy-MM-dd-HH" ^[1][2].

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[kunalekawde]

@dosu where to set this option ?

[dosubot[bot]]

You can set these options in the Jaeger collector or query configuration. If you're using environment variables, you can set them like this:

ES_INDEX_ROLLOVER_FREQUENCY_SERVICES=hour
ES_INDEX_ROLLOVER_FREQUENCY_SPANS=hour

If you're using a configuration file, you can add the following lines:

es:
  index-rollover-frequency-services: hour
  index-rollover-frequency-spans: hour

Make sure to restart the Jaeger components after making these changes for them to take effect.

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