# Curator Filters for a Weekly and Monthly Indices Created
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filters-for-a-weekly-and-monthly-indices-created/123050
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 8, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filters-for-a-weekly-and-monthly-indices-created/123050 "2018-03-08T11:07:08Z")
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### Author:  [@\_kyllr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_kyllr)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filters-for-a-weekly-and-monthly-indices-created/123050/1 "2018-03-08T11:07:08Z")
Hi,
How do I configure delete\_indices.yml for filters for a weekly and monthly indices created in Elasticsearch?
I am using curator to delete indices for the past 6 months using source: name.
Tried this for the monthly!
```
- filtertype: age
source: name
direction: older
timestring: '%Y.%m'
unit: months
unit_count: 6
```
How about for the weekly?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filters-for-a-weekly-and-monthly-indices-created/123050/2 "2018-03-08T15:12:30Z")
More information is needed. The problem is that [weeks and years are both 2 digit numbers](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.4/fe_timestring.html#_strftime). You will have to use another criteria to identify which indices are in weeks, and which are in months.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-filters-for-a-weekly-and-monthly-indices-created/123050/3 "2018-04-05T15:12:38Z")
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