Best practices for cleaning up old indices

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I can't use the curator plugin (or any other plugin really) because we are on AWS ES service.. I'm thinking the best I could do is write some bash scripts and fire them off with cron everyday , deleting old indices. does anyone have any best practice advise? thanks

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You can use curator called from another machine though.
That is all you would be doing if you DIY some bash scripts, right?

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Yes. Curator is not a plugin. It's a standalone app so it should work.

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doh.. great, got it thanks.

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@treehouse Curator 3.4.0 includes some fixes which specifically address usability within AWS ES. It should work just fine for what you need.

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