# Can I delete logs-generic-default?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-delete-logs-generic-default/377927>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-delete-logs-generic-default/377927 "2025-05-08T04:34:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vaishnavi\_Batgeri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vaishnavi_batgeri/32/142245_2.png) [@Vaishnavi\_Batgeri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vaishnavi_Batgeri)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-delete-logs-generic-default/377927/1 "2025-05-08T04:34:43Z")

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If I delete logs-generic-default indices, will it impact application or infrastructure data, as I'm facing a storage issue?

 ![logs-generic-default](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/6/46a89618078615df4cec1118fe803dbf0b57cd27.png)

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-delete-logs-generic-default/377927/2 "2025-05-08T06:26:08Z")

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Hi @Vaishnavi_Batgeri

None of us can tell you whether that is valuable data to you .. you need to look at the logs and determine yourself what they are.

Many of the elastic agent custom logs integrations write to that data stream

`logs-generic-default`

But you could have other sources writing to it as well.

That is a significant amount of logs / data take a look..and remember if you are not doing snapshots, if you delete the data stream / indices they are gone forever / non recoverable