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manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md

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{{es}} includes a set of built-in {{ilm-init}} policies that govern how managed indices transition as they age. This guide demonstrates how you can customize the lifecycle of a managed index, to adjust how the index transitions across [data tiers](/manage-data/lifecycle/data-tiers.md) and what [actions](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/index-lifecycle.md#ilm-phase-actions), such as downsampling or shrinking, are performed on the index during each lifecycle phase.
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Setting a custom {{ilm-init}} policy is useful when you have a specific set of indices, for example a set of Kubernetes logs which can grow to be quite large in volume, for which you don't want to use the default data retention duration and other {{ilm-init}} settings.
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[{{agent}}](/reference/fleet/index.md) uses the following set of built-in {{ilm-init}} policies to manage backing indices for its data streams:
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* `logs@lifecycle`

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