---
title: max_age
description: The maximum age that is allowed before triggering a rollover. It must be nested under conditions: There is no default value.  If this condition is specified,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_max_age
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# max_age
```yaml
action: rollover
description: >-
  Rollover the index associated with alias 'aliasname', which should be in the
  form of prefix-000001 (or similar), or prefix-yyyy.MM.DD-1.
options:
  name: aliasname
  conditions:
    max_age: 1d
```

<note>
  At least one of max_age, [max_docs](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_max_docs), [max_size](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_max_size) or any combinations of the three are required as `conditions:` for the [Rollover](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/rollover) action.
</note>

The maximum age that is allowed before triggering a rollover. It *must* be nested under `conditions:` There is no default value.  If this condition is specified, it must have a value, or Curator will generate an error.
Ages such as `1d` for one day, or `30s` for 30 seconds can be used.