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layout: default
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title: Data streams
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parent: Index management in Dashboards
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nav_order: 20
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redirect_from:
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- /dashboards/admin-ui-index/datastream/
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- /opensearch/data-streams/
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---
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# Data streams
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Introduced 2.6
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{: .label .label-purple }
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In OpenSearch Dashboards, the **Index Management** application allows you to view and manage [data streams]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/im-plugin/data-streams/) as shown in the following image.
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## Viewing a data stream
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To view a data stream and its health status, choose **Data streams** under **Index management** as shown in the following image.
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The following are the three data stream health statuses:
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- Green: All primary and replica shards are assigned.
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- Yellow: At least one replica shard is not assigned.
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- Red: At least one primary shard is not assigned.
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## Creating a data stream
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To create a data stream, perform the following steps:
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1. Under **Index Management**, choose **Data streams**.
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1. Choose **Create data stream**.
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1. Enter a name for the data stream under **Data stream name**.
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1. Ensure that you have a matching index template. This will be populated under **Matching index template**, as shown in the following image.
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1. The **Inherited settings from template** and **Index alias** sections are read-only, and display the backing indexes that are contained in the data stream.
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1. The number of primary shards, number of replicas, and the refresh interval are inherited from the template, as shown in the following image.
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1. Choose **Create data stream**.
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## Deleting a data stream
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To delete a data stream, perform the following steps:
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1. Under **Index Management**, choose **Data streams**.
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1. Select the data stream that you want to delete.
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1. Choose **Actions**, and then choose **Delete**.
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## Rolling over a data stream
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To perform a rollover operation on a data stream, perform the following steps:
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1. Under **Index Management**, choose **Data streams**.
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1. Choose **Actions**, and then choose **Roll over**, as shown in the following image.
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1. Under **Configure source**, select the source data stream on which you want to perform the rollover operation.
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1. Choose **Roll over**, as shown in the following image.
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## Force merging data streams
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To perform a force merge operation on two or more indexes, perform the following steps:
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1. Under **Index Management**, choose **Data streams**.
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1. Select the data streams on which you want to perform the force merge operation.
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1. Choose **Actions**, and then choose **Force merge**.
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1. Under **Configure source index**, specify the data streams you want to force merge.
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1. Optionally, under **Advanced settings** you can to choose to **Flush indices** or **Only expunge delete** and then specify the **Max number of segments** to merge to as shown in the following image.
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