---
title: Elasticsearch Curator allocation example
description: 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/elasticsearch/curator/ex_allocation
---

# Elasticsearch Curator allocation example
```yaml
---
# Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value.  None will be a string,
# not a Python "NoneType"
#
# Also remember that all examples have 'disable_action' set to True.  If you
# want to use this action as a template, be sure to set this to False after
# copying it.
actions:
  1:
    action: allocation
    description: >-
      Apply shard allocation routing to 'require' 'tag=cold' for hot/cold node
      setup for logstash- indices older than 3 days, based on index_creation
      date
    options:
      key: tag
      value: cold
      allocation_type: require
      disable_action: True
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: logstash-
    - filtertype: age
      source: creation_date
      direction: older
      unit: days
      unit_count: 3
```