# Delete default index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549 "2022-06-30T09:46:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![gerardgorrion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gerardgorrion/32/85495_2.png) [@gerardgorrion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gerardgorrion)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549/1 "2022-06-30T09:46:30Z")

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

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/c/5cf86c6db8a38c50e9c0d971a3c289740b23017c.png)

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

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7f326b5d06133cd69114e4d98977c65c80de4528.png)

All in hot status:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/5/d5049fa590f11bb7702d533c08d17df8b37e8129.png)

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

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/5/65965e01caf49b7eed94099a93125e6709760d4f.png)

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,

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**Author:** ![gerardgorrion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gerardgorrion/32/85495_2.png) [@gerardgorrion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gerardgorrion)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549/2 "2022-07-01T10:27:54Z")

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

```auto
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,

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**Author:** ![gerardgorrion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gerardgorrion/32/85495_2.png) [@gerardgorrion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gerardgorrion)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549/3 "2022-07-06T07:20:42Z")

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Some idea about this index and the deletion procedure reccomended?

Thanks,

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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:** [August 3, 2022, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-default-index/308549/4 "2022-08-03T07:21:24Z")

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