# 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:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-delete-1-month-old-records-documents-without-deleting-index-in-elastic-search-kibana/160041/20 "2018-12-12T17:29:12Z")

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Read [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) and specifically the "Also be patient" part.

It's fine to answer on your own thread after 2 or 3 days (not including weekends) if you don't have an answer.

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