# Cleaning up of indexes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-of-indexes/340885
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 16, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-of-indexes/340885 "2023-08-16T08:27:04Z")
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### Author: ![vishnu\_ishpujani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishnu_ishpujani/32/123762_2.png) [@vishnu\_ishpujani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vishnu_ishpujani)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-of-indexes/340885/1 "2023-08-16T08:27:04Z")

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Hi ,

I need to cleanup indexes data from Elastic cluster, what is the best way to perform the task as deleting from Dev tools is taking too much time and affecting cluster as well?

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### Author: ![HiteshSingh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f475e1/32.png) [@HiteshSingh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HiteshSingh)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-of-indexes/340885/2 "2023-09-04T15:32:57Z")

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> [@vishnu\_ishpujani](#):
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> Hi ,
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> I need to cleanup indexes data from Elastic cluster, what is the best way to perform the task as deleting from Dev tools is taking too much time and affecting cluster as well?

You can make use of Kibana for this:

Go to Stack Management --\> Index Management

You can delete all the indices at once or do various operations

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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: [October 2, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-of-indexes/340885/3 "2023-10-02T15:33:07Z")

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