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This commit adds a brief note to the documentation on how to manage the index templates that are used to create APM Server and Beats indices.

This commit adds a brief note to the documentation on how to manage the
index templates that are used to create APM Server and Beats indices.
@jasontedor jasontedor added >docs General docs changes v7.0.0 :Distributed Indexing/CCR Issues around the Cross Cluster State Replication features v6.6.0 v6.5.3 labels Dec 6, 2018
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Suggested some rewording, but otherwise LGTM.

==== Setting soft deletes on indices created by APM Server or Beats

If you want to replicate indices created by APM Server or Beats, and are
allowing APM Server or Beats to manage index templates you will want to add some
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I would state this more directly and say:

If you want to replicate indices created by APM Server or Beats, and are
allowing APM Server or Beats to manage index templates, you need to
enable soft deletes. To enable soft deletes, add the following settings
to the APM Server or Beats configuration file.

@jasontedor jasontedor merged commit d1184cf into elastic:master Dec 6, 2018
jasontedor added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 6, 2018
This commit adds a brief note to the documentation on how to manage the
index templates that are used to create APM Server and Beats indices.
jasontedor added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 6, 2018
This commit adds a brief note to the documentation on how to manage the
index templates that are used to create APM Server and Beats indices.
@jasontedor jasontedor deleted the ccr-beats branch December 6, 2018 21:08
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