# Delete automatically One year old data from elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384 "2020-01-24T07:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Pratap\_Sing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_pratap_sing/32/61333_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Pratap\_Sing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Pratap_Sing)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384/1 "2020-01-24T07:45:23Z")

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Hi Team

I would like to automatically delete one year old data from Elastic Search, I didn't find any proper way.  
Please anyone help out me.  
Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384/2 "2020-01-24T09:20:14Z")

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Welcome!

Are you using time based indices?  
You can look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Pratap\_Sing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_pratap_sing/32/61333_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Pratap\_Sing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Pratap_Sing)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384/3 "2020-01-26T14:30:48Z")

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Thank you.  
Yes, I am using time based indices.

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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:** [February 23, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-automatically-one-year-old-data-from-elastic-search/216384/4 "2020-02-23T14:30:53Z")

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