# Curator filter to exclude system indicies

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filter-to-exclude-system-indicies/177890>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [April 22, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filter-to-exclude-system-indicies/177890 "2019-04-22T18:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Foran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jeremy_foran/32/15434_2.png) [@Jeremy\_Foran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeremy_Foran)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filter-to-exclude-system-indicies/177890/1 "2019-04-22T18:31:05Z")

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Wanted to share my filter that ignores all indexes that start with the "." character, like ".kibana" for example.

```
filters:
- filtertype: pattern
  kind: regex
  value: '^\\..*$'
  exclude: True
```

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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:** [May 20, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filter-to-exclude-system-indicies/177890/2 "2019-05-20T18:31:07Z")

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