# Cleanup Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076 "2017-11-17T07:15:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shreyas\_Gade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shreyas_gade/32/24342_2.png) [@Shreyas\_Gade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreyas_Gade)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076/1 "2017-11-17T07:15:15Z")

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I have processed some of the log files and tested ELK with command line inputs.  
There is a lot of mess in Kibana with these testing data.

Can anyone please let me know how do I cleanup Kibana ? I need to clear everything what I have processed till date.

Another question I have is how do I parse different types of log files with ELK and have different indexes for these files?

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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:** [November 17, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076/2 "2017-11-17T07:27:15Z")

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FYI we’ve renamed ELK to the Elastic Stack, otherwise Beats and APM feel left out! 😉

> [@Shreyas\_Gade](#):
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> Can anyone please let me know how do I cleanup Kibana ? I need to clear everything what I have processed till date.

You mean the data in Elasticsearch? You should use the APIs to [delete the indices](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/indices-delete-index.html) you don't need.

> [@Shreyas\_Gade](#):
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> Another question I have is how do I parse different types of log files with ELK and have different indexes for these files?

How are you parsing things now?

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**Author:** ![Shreyas\_Gade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shreyas_gade/32/24342_2.png) [@Shreyas\_Gade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreyas_Gade)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076/3 "2017-11-17T07:41:28Z")

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The setup I used was ==\> FileBeat --\> elastic search --\> Kibana

I'm parsing simple log files and displaying these in Kibana.

Now, Kibana is overloaded with junk testing data. How do I cleanup the data from elasticsearch ?

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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:** [December 15, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleanup-kibana/108076/4 "2017-12-15T07:41:28Z")

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