Delete default index

Hi all, we have some indexes created by default in elasticsearch, managed by theese ILM:

For example, .alerts-ilm-policy have this index:

All in hot status:

When try to delete older index of these ilm, index deletion show a warning message:

Is possible to delete it? how can we manage this index lifecycle? we have more and more indices and soon we will reach the ES index limit.

Thanks and regards,

list of index created by system with this ilm, some with rollout:

index                                                         store.size
.monitoring-es-7-2022.06.29                                       27.8gb
.monitoring-es-7-2022.06.30                                       27.8gb
.monitoring-es-7-2022.06.28                                       27.4gb
.monitoring-es-7-2022.06.27                                       27.2gb
.monitoring-es-7-2022.07.01                                         13gb
.monitoring-logstash-7-2022.06.29                                  8.5gb
.monitoring-logstash-7-2022.06.30                                  8.5gb
.monitoring-logstash-7-2022.06.28                                  8.1gb
.monitoring-logstash-7-2022.06.27                                  7.5gb
.monitoring-logstash-7-2022.07.01                                  3.7gb
.kibana-event-log-7.16.2-000005                                      1gb
.kibana-event-log-7.16.2-000004                                  995.7mb
.kibana-event-log-7.16.2-000003                                  943.6mb
.kibana_7.16.2_001                                               362.7mb
.kibana_task_manager_7.16.2_001                                  252.9mb
.watches                                                         144.6mb
.kibana-event-log-7.16.2-000006                                    142mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.26                                    82.4mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.29                                    81.9mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.28                                    80.2mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.30                                    79.7mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.25                                    78.2mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.06.27                                    77.5mb
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.03.21-000004                               49.5mb
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.04.20-000006                               46.9mb
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.05.20-000008                               43.6mb
.reporting-2022-05-15                                             32.4mb
.monitoring-kibana-7-2022.06.30                                   32.4mb
.watcher-history-13-2022.07.01                                    32.3mb
.monitoring-kibana-7-2022.06.29                                     30mb
.monitoring-kibana-7-2022.06.28                                   29.5mb
.monitoring-kibana-7-2022.06.27                                   29.5mb
.reporting-2021.09.12                                             25.5mb
.reporting-2021.12.12                                             18.4mb
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.06.19-000010                               18.3mb
.reporting-2021.10.24                                               18mb
.monitoring-kibana-7-2022.07.01                                   17.4mb
.kibana_7.15.2_001                                                15.9mb
.reporting-2022-06-19                                             13.4mb
.reporting-2022-03-27                                             12.9mb
.triggered_watches                                                12.8mb
.reporting-2021.08.08                                             11.7mb
.reporting-2021.11.07                                             10.3mb
.reporting-2022-02-20                                             10.2mb
.reporting-2022-06-26                                              7.5mb
.reporting-2021.09.26                                                7mb
.reporting-2021.10.17                                              6.3mb
.reporting-2021.11.14                                              5.7mb
.kibana_1                                                            5mb
.reporting-2022-05-01                                              4.6mb
.reporting-2022-01-23                                              4.4mb
.reporting-2022-06-12                                              3.7mb
.reporting-2021.05.16                                              3.5mb
.internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-000001       2.9mb
.async-search                                                      2.4mb
.kibana_security_session_1                                         1.8mb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.01.26-000001      1.4mb
.reporting-2020.10.11                                              1.3mb
.reporting-2021-12-26                                              1.1mb
.reporting-2022-04-24                                             1018kb
.reporting-2021.11.21                                            826.5kb
.kibana_task_manager_7.15.2_001                                  811.4kb
.internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-000002     757.7kb
.slm-history-1-000002                                            672.2kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.04.21-000007    625.6kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.04.07-000006    615.3kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.02.09-000002    585.5kb
.security-7                                                      575.4kb
.reporting-2022-04-03                                            542.2kb
.reporting-2021.11.28                                            496.6kb
.internal.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-default-000003      484.9kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.06.18-000011    479.8kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.02.24-000003    436.4kb
.reporting-2021.10.31                                            431.3kb
.reporting-2022-04-10                                            388.6kb
.internal.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-default-000004      359.7kb
.internal.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-default-000005      335.7kb
.internal.alerts-observability.apm.alerts-default-000004         316.1kb
.internal.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-default-000001      308.1kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.05.06-000008    293.8kb
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000001        293.1kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.03.24-000005    262.3kb
.internal.alerts-observability.apm.alerts-default-000001         253.1kb
.internal.alerts-observability.uptime.alerts-default-000002      248.7kb
.tasks                                                           248.4kb
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000004        235.3kb
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000003          222kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.03.10-000004    214.6kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.06.04-000010    208.4kb
.ds-.slm-history-5-2022.04.20-000006                             183.2kb
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.05.20-000009    178.7kb
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000005        176.9kb
.reporting-2020.03.22                                              168kb
.ds-.slm-history-5-2022.03.21-000004                             165.9kb
.monitoring-alerts-7                                             160.3kb
.ds-.slm-history-5-2022.05.21-000008                             130.1kb
.ds-.slm-history-5-2022.06.20-000010                             126.3kb
.reporting-2022-02-06                                            114.5kb
.transform-notifications-000002                                    111kb
.reporting-2020.10.04                                            109.7kb
.internal.alerts-observability.apm.alerts-default-000005         106.3kb
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000002         87.9kb
.kibana_task_manager_1                                            43.4kb
.fleet-policies-7                                                 41.6kb
.internal.alerts-observability.apm.alerts-default-000003            30kb
.internal.alerts-observability.apm.alerts-default-000002            30kb
.transform-internal-007                                           18.1kb
.fleet-enrollment-api-keys-7                                      13.4kb
.apm-agent-configuration                                            604b
.apm-custom-link                                                    558b
.siem-signals-default-000001                                        558b
.items-default-000001                                               558b
.lists-middleware-000001                                            558b
.siem-signals-middleware-000001                                     558b
.lists-default-000001                                               558b
.items-middleware-000001                                            558b
.reporting-2022-05-22                                               492b
.internal.alerts-observability.logs.alerts-default-000006           452b
.siem-signals-default-000002                                        452b
.siem-signals-default-000003                                        452b
.siem-signals-default-000004                                        452b
.kibana-event-log-7.15.2-000004                                     452b
.siem-signals-default-000005                                        452b
.siem-signals-default-000006                                        452b
.siem-signals-default-000007                                        452b
.kibana-event-log-7.15.2-000007                                     452b
.kibana-event-log-7.15.2-000006                                     452b
.kibana-event-log-7.15.2-000005                                     452b
.internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-000004        452b
.internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-000003        452b
.internal.alerts-observability.metrics.alerts-default-000005        452b
.siem-signals-service-000002                                        452b
.siem-signals-service-000003                                        452b
.siem-signals-service-000004                                        452b
.siem-signals-service-000005                                        452b
.siem-signals-service-000006                                        452b
.siem-signals-service-000007                                        452b
.siem-signals-service2-000002                                       452b
.siem-signals-service2-000001                                       452b

Can someone help me to identify unused indexes?

Thanks,

Some idea about this index and the deletion procedure reccomended?

Thanks,

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