Manage a data stream

Elastic Stack Serverless

Investigate your data streams and address lifecycle management needs in the Data Streams view.

The value in the Indices column indicates the number of backing indices. Click this number to drill down into details.

A value in the data retention column indicates that the data stream is managed by a data stream lifecycle policy. This value is the time period for which your data is guaranteed to be stored. Data older than this period can be deleted by Elasticsearch at a later time.

In Elasticsearch Serverless, indices matching the logs-*-* pattern use the logsDB index mode by default. The logsDB index mode creates a logs data stream.

• To view more information about a data stream, such as its generation or its current index lifecycle policy, click the stream’s name. From this view, you can navigate to Discover to further explore data within the data stream.
• To view information about the stream’s backing indices, click the number in the Indices column.
• [preview] To modify the data retention value, select an index, open the Manage menu, and click Edit data retention.