# By default purging in elasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665 "2018-02-20T14:33:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vids](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ba0ec/32.png) [@vids](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vids)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665/1 "2018-02-20T14:33:32Z")

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If we have no defined any purging logic for indexes in elasticsearch then what will be default behavior to purge those index, do we have such default behavior?

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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:** [February 20, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665/2 "2018-02-20T23:22:50Z")

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It just keeps them.

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**Author:** ![vids](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ba0ec/32.png) [@vids](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vids)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665/3 "2018-02-21T08:53:34Z")

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thanks, so in case of space issue it will just throw an error if we will not delete those indexes manually or with any script.

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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:** [February 21, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665/4 "2018-02-21T09:18:24Z")

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Correct.

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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:** [March 21, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/by-default-purging-in-elasticsearch/120665/5 "2018-03-21T09:18:26Z")

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