# Curator age filter with field\_stats source not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-age-filter-with-field-stats-source-not-working/217986>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-age-filter-with-field-stats-source-not-working/217986 "2020-02-05T12:33:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-age-filter-with-field-stats-source-not-working/217986/1 "2020-02-05T12:33:38Z")

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Hi, I am using the sample data available on kibana to make some tests, but when I try to delete only 5 days older indices, all indices are deleted. Flights and eCommerce data are loaded. The elasticsearch and kibana are running on docker containers.

config file:  
---  
client:  
hosts:  
- 127.0.0.1  
port: 9200  
url\_prefix:  
use\_ssl: false  
certificate:  
client\_cert:  
client\_key:  
ssl\_no\_validate: false  
timeout: 30  
master\_only: false  
http\_auth: elastic:elastic

```
logging:
  loglevel: INFO
  logfile:
  logformat: default
  blacklist: ['elasticsearch', 'urllib3']

```

actions config file:

```
actions:
 1:
  action: delete_indices
  description: >-
   Delete indices older than 5 days based on index name.
  options:
   ignore_empty_list: True
   timeout_override:
   continue_if_exception: False
   disable_action: False
  filters:
  - filtertype: pattern
    kind: suffix
    value: flights
  - filtertype: age
    source: field_stats
    direction: older
    unit: days
    unit_count: 5
    field: 'timestamp'
    stats_result: min_value

```

terminal output

```
2020-02-05 04:32:49,773 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "delete_indices"
2020-02-05 04:32:49,773 INFO Creating client object and testing connection
2020-02-05 04:32:49,776 INFO Instantiating client object
2020-02-05 04:32:49,777 INFO Testing client connectivity
2020-02-05 04:32:49,871 INFO Successfully created Elasticsearch client object with provided settings
2020-02-05 04:32:49,875 INFO Trying Action ID: 1, "delete_indices": Delete indices older than 5 days based on index name.
2020-02-05 04:32:49,933 INFO Deleting 1 selected indices: ['kibana_sample_data_flights']
2020-02-05 04:32:49,935 INFO ---deleting index kibana_sample_data_flights
2020-02-05 04:32:50,031 INFO Action ID: 1, "delete_indices" completed.
2020-02-05 04:32:50,031 INFO Job completed.
```

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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 4, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-age-filter-with-field-stats-source-not-working/217986/2 "2020-03-04T12:43:18Z")

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