diff --git a/elk_metrics_6x/createElasticIndexes.yml b/elk_metrics_6x/createElasticIndexes.yml
index 15ce4233..a7e43bad 100644
--- a/elk_metrics_6x/createElasticIndexes.yml
+++ b/elk_metrics_6x/createElasticIndexes.yml
@@ -104,3 +104,22 @@
               mapping:
                 total_fields:
                   limit: "3072"
+
+    - name: Create custom monitoring index template
+      uri:
+        url: http://127.0.0.1:9200/_template/custom_monitoring
+        method: PUT
+        body: "{{ index_option | to_json }}"
+        status_code: 200
+        body_format: json
+      register: create_basicIndexTemplate
+      until: create_basicIndexTemplate is success
+      retries: 3
+      delay: 10
+      vars:
+        index_option:
+          template: ".monitoring-*"
+          order: 1
+          settings:
+            number_of_replicas: "{{ elasticsearch_number_of_replicas | int }}"
+            number_of_shards: "{{ ((elasticsearch_number_of_replicas | int) * 2) + 1 }}"
diff --git a/elk_metrics_6x/roles/elastic_curator/tasks/curator_systemd.yml b/elk_metrics_6x/roles/elastic_curator/tasks/curator_systemd.yml
index 9f44364e..a46854e3 100644
--- a/elk_metrics_6x/roles/elastic_curator/tasks/curator_systemd.yml
+++ b/elk_metrics_6x/roles/elastic_curator/tasks/curator_systemd.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
             OnBootSec: 30min
             OnUnitActiveSec: 24h
             Persistent: true
-      - service_name: "curator"
+      - service_name: "curator-size"
         execstarts:
           - /opt/elasticsearch-curator/bin/curator
             --config /var/lib/curator/curator.yml