# Automatic deletion of indices older than 3 months in elastic search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957 "2021-03-22T08:20:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Deepz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deepz)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/1 "2021-03-22T08:20:07Z")
Hi..
Could someone help me on how to automate the deletion the indices that are older than 3 months old.
(Without curator)
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### Author:  [@Deepz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deepz)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/2 "2021-03-22T08:20:42Z")
Hi @dadoonet
Could you kindly help
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/3 "2021-03-22T08:43:36Z")
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/4 "2021-03-22T08:44:40Z")
Have a look at Index Lifecycle Management feature.
Otherwise run a script in a crontab.
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### Author:  [@Deepz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deepz)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/5 "2021-03-22T09:00:04Z")
Am new to this forum.
Im sorry for adding the tag in the first post itself.
Am also new to this elastic search.
And below is my requirement.
1. Would like to list the indices that are older than 3 months (from the name of the indexes)
2. Then delete them
Kindly assist
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/6 "2021-03-22T09:39:17Z")
Do you want to do that manually or use the built-in feature? If the later, start from [ILM: Manage the index lifecycle | Elasticsearch Reference [7.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-deletion-of-indices-older-than-3-months-in-elastic-search/267957/7 "2021-04-19T09:39:37Z")
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