# Delete logs in ElasticSearch after certain period

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-after-certain-period/75067
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-after-certain-period/75067 "2017-02-14T15:22:15Z")
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### Author: ![bob-bza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-after-certain-period/75067/8 "2017-02-14T17:40:21Z")

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> [@theuntergeek](#):
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> @bob-bza, Elasticsearch Curator is the way to automatically delete your older indices.
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> See the delete\_indices action documentation, and the example for the same action. The rest of the documentation should help with understanding.

I was using Elasticsearch 5.1 in AWS does it support Elasticsearch Curator ???

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