# Automatically delete 1 month old records/documents(without deleting index) in elastic search/kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-delete-1-month-old-records-documents-without-deleting-index-in-elastic-search-kibana/160041>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-delete-1-month-old-records-documents-without-deleting-index-in-elastic-search-kibana/160041 "2018-12-09T11:18:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![sid\_nikhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@sid\_nikhil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sid_nikhil)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-delete-1-month-old-records-documents-without-deleting-index-in-elastic-search-kibana/160041/23 "2018-12-13T09:19:40Z")

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Thanks  
Do we also need to set setup.template.name  
and setup.template.pattern in the filebeat.yml file ?

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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:** [January 10, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-delete-1-month-old-records-documents-without-deleting-index-in-elastic-search-kibana/160041/24 "2019-01-10T09:19:42Z")

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Closed on January 10, 2019, 9:19am UTC

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