# Delete old .kibana index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-old-kibana-index/190508>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-old-kibana-index/190508 "2019-07-15T10:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rubpa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rubpa)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-old-kibana-index/190508/1 "2019-07-15T10:56:17Z")

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I've the following indices on my currently v6.8 cluster.

```
GET _cat/indices?v&index=.kib*&h=index

index
.kibana_8
.kibana_7
.kibana_task_manager
.kibana-6

GET /.kibana_8

{
  ".kibana_8" : {
    "aliases" : {
      ".kibana" : { }
    },

```

The 7.0 Upgrade Assistant show the following critical issue with a suggestion to reindex:  
_.kibana-6 This index was created using version: 5.6.9_

Since it appears that Kibana is actually using the .kibana\_8 index, can I delete .kibana-6 instead of reindexing it as suggested?

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**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-old-kibana-index/190508/2 "2019-07-15T14:47:07Z")

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@rubpa in the current kibana version you are on, and according to the provided info, it looks like `.kibana` index is pointing to `.kibana_8`. In that way, yes, you can just delete `.kibana-6`

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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 12, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-old-kibana-index/190508/3 "2019-08-12T14:47:13Z")

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