# Delete indexes and indexes pattern is forbidden

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-and-indexes-pattern-is-forbidden/177606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 19, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-and-indexes-pattern-is-forbidden/177606 "2019-04-19T10:40:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![guidoilbaldo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guidoilbaldo/32/44445_2.png) [@guidoilbaldo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guidoilbaldo)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-and-indexes-pattern-is-forbidden/177606/1 "2019-04-19T10:40:13Z")

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Hello,

I just set up a new ELK cluster made by: 3 master/data nodes, 2 coordinating nodes and 1 kibana node, version 6.7. I have some filebeats sending data to logstash, then logstash sends data to elasticsearch.

I tried sending some logs through filebeat-\>logstash-\>elastic and I was able to index them. From Kibana, I created a index pattern for my new data and everything went fine until yesterday, where I decided to delete index and index pattern and create them anew.  
Trying to delete them from Kibana resulted in a "403 Forbidden" error that I don't seem to be able to resolve.  
I also tried to delete index with Postman from my laptop, always getting a 403 forbidden.

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I'm running out of ideas. Here's the config of one of my nodes. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

```
# This file is being managed by Ansible. Do not modify!

# CLUSTER
cluster.name: cluster

# NODE
node.name: es-1

node.master: true
node.data: true
node.ingest: true

node.attr.rack_id: rack-1

# CLUSTER
cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes: rack_id
cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries: 2

# PATH
path.data: /data/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch

# NETWORK
network.host: 192.168.0.203

transport.tcp.port: 9300
transport.tcp.compress: true

http.port: 9200
http.enabled: true
http.cors.enabled: true 
http.cors.allow-origin: "*"
http.compression: true

# DISCOVERY
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["192.168.0.203", "192.168.0.204", "192.168.0.205"]

discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2

discovery.zen.ping_timeout: 10s
discovery.zen.fd.ping_retries: 3
discovery.zen.fd.ping_interval: 3s
discovery.zen.fd.ping_timeout: 30s

# OTHER
# Set this property to true to lock the memory:
bootstrap.memory_lock: true

action.auto_create_index: true
action.destructive_requires_name: true
```

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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:** [May 17, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indexes-and-indexes-pattern-is-forbidden/177606/2 "2019-05-17T10:40:33Z")

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