# Creating and deleting a small index every 3 minutes, posible problems?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158 "2021-01-05T06:28:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/1 "2021-01-05T06:28:16Z")
Hi, with a python script I run a single logstash pipeline that create an ES index, in the same script I delete the index every 3 minutes, the size of the index is less than 1 Mb, I was wandering if this constant deletion of the index could cause any problem, I read somewhere that when using the delete api, the index is not really deleted, but wait for a process that do that...
what do you think? could cause any problem in the future?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/2 "2021-01-05T06:30:24Z")
It's not really what Elasticsearch was designed for but it should be fine if it's index level and not document.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/3 "2021-01-05T06:31:17Z")
I do not see a problem with this if it is just a single index but do not understand why you would want to do this. Could you please explain the rationale behind this?
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### Author:  [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/4 "2021-01-05T06:38:18Z")
Im just crazy....no, I get events from zabbix DB, display them on a canvas, like a traffic lights, those events are solved in minutes, so I want to display only the currently active events.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/5 "2021-01-05T06:39:12Z")
Why not change that into an events stream and store them for historical analysis?
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### Author:  [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/6 "2021-01-05T06:44:51Z")
There's a large event index for that, but its not my decision
🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-and-deleting-a-small-index-every-3-minutes-posible-problems/260158/7 "2021-02-02T06:44:54Z")
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