ELK reindex data stream in place

Question

I've created a bunch of data streams with the ELK stack but the documentation only talks about reindexing to a new data stream name. I want to keep my old data stream name. How do I do this?

Answer 1

that's a limitation of the concept as it's intended to be append only, so you cannot reuse the old datastream name. you could reindex, delete the old stream, and then add an alias that was the original datastream name to the new datastream

(also try not to use master documentation, as it's for unreleased branches. you are better off using current )