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* [View the lifecycle status of an index or datastream](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/policy-view-status.md)
* [Update or switch a lifecycle policy](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/policy-updates.md)
* [Restore a managed data stream or index](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/restore-managed-data-stream-index.md)
* [Customize built-in policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md)
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Default {{ilm}} policies are created automatically when you install an [Elastic Integration](integration-docs://reference/index.md), or when you use {{agent}}, {{beats}}, or the {{ls}} {{es}} output plugin to send data to the {{stack}}.

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This step is required only when you're planning to use {{ilm-init}} with rolling indices. It is not required when you're using data streams, where the initial managed index is created automatically.

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When you enable {{ilm}} for {{beats}}, {{agent}}, or for the {{agent}} or {{ls}} {{es}} output plugins, the necessary policies and configuration changes are applied automatically. If you'd like to create a specialized ILM policy for any data stream, refer to our tutorial [Customize built-in policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md).
When you enable {{ilm}} for {{beats}}, {{agent}}, or for the {{agent}} or {{ls}} {{es}} output plugins, the necessary policies and configuration changes are applied automatically. If you'd like to create a specialized ILM policy for any data stream, refer to our tutorial [](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md).
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After you've identified one or more data streams for which you'd like to customize how the data is managed over time, refer to our tutorials:

* For a general guide about configuring a custom ILM policy for any managed data stream, try out our [Customize built-in policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md) tutorial in the data lifecycle documentation.
* For steps to modify {{ilm-init}} policies without changing the built-in defaults, try out the [](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md) tutorial in the data lifecycle documentation.
* For the steps to customize an ILM policy for a set of data streams, such as all logs or metrics data streams across all namespaces, across only a selected namespace, and others, check the set of tutorials in [Customize data retention policies](/reference/fleet/data-streams-ilm-tutorial.md) in the {{fleet}} and {{agent}} reference documentation.
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{{es}} comes with many built-in ILM policies. For standard Observability or Security use cases, you will have two {{ilm-init}} policies configured automatically: `logs@lifecycle` for logs and `metrics@lifecycle` for metrics.

To learn how to create a specialized ILM policy for any data stream, such as those created when you install an Elastic Integration, refer to our tutorial [Customize built-in policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md).
To learn how to create and adjust copies of built-in {{ilm-init}} policies for managed data streams, such as those created when you install an Elastic Integration, refer to our tutorial [](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/tutorial-customize-built-in-policies.md).
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**To view the current lifecycle status for a datastream:**
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# Customize built-in policies
# Customize duplicates of built-in {{ilm-init}} policies

{{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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