# Auto recycle an old index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 13, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584 "2017-01-13T23:29:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![chunji08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chunji08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chunji08)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584/1 "2017-01-13T23:29:16Z")

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Hi,  
We are using ES to track the ERROR/FAILURE in our daily submitted CLOUD jobs. But Once the index is getting old, it is really useless to us. So is there an option, to have an index auto-recycled, once it is getting certain time old ? Or we need to handle it at our level ?

Thanks,

Chun

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584/2 "2017-01-13T23:29:53Z")

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What do you mean by recycled?

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**Author:** ![chunji08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chunji08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chunji08)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584/3 "2017-01-13T23:56:53Z")

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Hi Mark,  
Our existing ES Framework (version 2.3 ) is doing the index on daily basis, and it has been continuous running for quite a while.

1. What I have noticed is sometimes, the daily index was not generated at all, and the last log message in the previous day, gives such message " one or more nodes has gone under the high or low watermark... ".
2. And If I was to delete some old index, then it backs to normal to generate the new ones.

So that is what I am asking for, that if we could auto-delete the old ones, if the overall is about to reach some maximum ?

Thanks,  
Chun

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584/4 "2017-01-13T23:58:30Z")

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Oh right.

[Elasticsearch Curator](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html) can manage deletion for you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-recycle-an-old-index/71584/5 "2017-02-10T23:58:35Z")

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