# Delete index automatically after particular days **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [October 28, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875 "2021-10-28T05:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Divya\_Bansal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divya_bansal/32/81564_2.png) [@Divya\_Bansal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divya_Bansal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/1 "2021-10-28T05:50:55Z")
Hi, I am using Logstash to ingest log data to Elasticsearch, Indices are created daily, that every day's index has a unique name like `index_name-YYYY-MM-DD` . So, after 30 days, there will be 30 indices. On day 31st, I want the index made at day 1 to get deleted, and on 32nd day, I want 2nd day's index to get deleted. I had a look at Index Lifecycle Policies. It is showing option through curl but is there any way to do through logtash conf file? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/2 "2021-10-28T06:10:29Z")
This is what ILM was designed for. It can not be done through Logstash. ---
**Author:** ![Divya\_Bansal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divya_bansal/32/81564_2.png) [@Divya\_Bansal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divya_Bansal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/3 "2021-10-28T06:36:52Z")
is there any other way to automate the deletion ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/4 "2021-10-28T06:40:52Z")
Why do you not want to use ILM? It is what I would recommend. You could also use Curator, which runs as an external process. This is the old way of managing index lifecycles that ILM is replacing. ---
**Author:** ![Divya\_Bansal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divya_bansal/32/81564_2.png) [@Divya\_Bansal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divya_Bansal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/5 "2021-10-28T06:44:37Z")
I tried using ILM my data is stucked at hot only it does not move to other section ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/6 "2021-10-28T06:46:04Z")
Then I would recommend opening a separate thread to solve that issue rather than dismiss ILM. When you do so, make sure you share the full policy as well as node configurations and version information. ---
**Author:** ![Divya\_Bansal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divya_bansal/32/81564_2.png) [@Divya\_Bansal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divya_Bansal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/7 "2021-10-28T06:47:39Z")
okay, thank you ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-automatically-after-particular-days/287875/8 "2021-11-25T06:47:59Z")
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