# Delete Index after x amount of days
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492 "2020-08-26T17:15:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/1 "2020-08-26T17:15:16Z")
Currently reading logs from Logstash to Elasticsearch and creating daily indexes. Is there a way to delete each of these indexes after an X amount of days?
Also, is there an auto delete feature when my elasticsearch cluster runs out of storage?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/2 "2020-08-26T21:48:43Z")
[ILM](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-start.html) is the best thing for what you want.
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/3 "2020-08-27T00:12:48Z")
I've created an Index Lifecycle Policy but my daily log indexes don't show up when I try to apply the policy to an index template. Is there an extra step I'm missing?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/4 "2020-08-27T00:18:07Z")
Can you share your policy and index template where that's been applied?
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/5 "2020-08-27T00:32:02Z")
 
Here are my settings for the Policy and template. What I want the policy to do is to delete the daily indexes after two weeks. My current set up, I believe, will delete all the indexes after two weeks and then start repopulating.
My indexes are set up like this: "jira-year.month.day"
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/6 "2020-08-27T00:45:16Z")
You might need to check with the [explain API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/ilm-explain-lifecycle.html) to see what's happening.
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/7 "2020-08-27T00:57:54Z")
{
"indices" : {
"jiralogdata-2020.08.21" : {
"index" : "jiralogdata-2020.08.21",
"managed" : false
}
}
}
Looks like the policy isn't being applied, not sure why
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/8 "2020-08-27T01:03:29Z")
Thanks! Can you try [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/set-up-lifecycle-policy.html#apply-policy-multiple](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/set-up-lifecycle-policy.html#apply-policy-multiple)
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/9 "2020-08-27T01:24:03Z")
Great! That seemed to add the policy. Is there a way get when the log will be deleted? I'm only getting the information below:
```
"indices" : {
"jiralogdata-2020.08.22" : {
"index" : "jiralogdata-2020.08.22",
"managed" : true,
"policy" : "Delete_Index_After_2_weeks",
"lifecycle_date_millis" : 1598054395357,
"age" : "5.05d",
"phase" : "hot",
"phase_time_millis" : 1598491271739,
"action" : "complete",
"action_time_millis" : 1598491272042,
"step" : "complete",
"step_time_millis" : 1598491272042,
"phase_execution" : {
"policy" : "Delete_Index_After_2_weeks",
"phase_definition" : {
"min_age" : "0ms",
"actions" : {
"set_priority" : {
"priority" : 100
}
}
},
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/10 "2020-08-27T01:32:25Z")
By [default](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-settings.html), the cluster will check if there are ILM policies it needs to execute.
So you should see something happening after 20 min at the most.
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### Author:  [@userR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/userR)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/11 "2020-08-27T01:49:48Z")
Great thanks for your help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-after-x-amount-of-days/246492/12 "2020-09-24T01:49:52Z")
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