# Delete oldest index if storage is full
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-oldest-index-if-storage-is-full/301115
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-oldest-index-if-storage-is-full/301115 "2022-03-30T15:26:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@6NMgfDwZ3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6NMgfDwZ3)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-oldest-index-if-storage-is-full/301115/1 "2022-03-30T15:26:43Z")
Hello,
ELK stack version: v7.x ... latest
I've created an ILM policy that deletes the `index` if the index is older than x days. It works well.
But sometimes too many `documents` arrive into the `indexes` so the storage becomes full (95%) before the policy would delete the oldest index to make space for the more valuable `documents` in the newer `indexes`.
Is there any kind of mechanism in ELK which would help to delete the oldest `index` if storage is full or reach a certain level (x%)?
if possible I'd like to solve this problem only with ELK feature set so to avoid the usage of external tools like Curator.
Could somebody point me in the right direction?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-oldest-index-if-storage-is-full/301115/2 "2022-03-30T23:46:36Z")
That's not possible in ILM at this point sorry.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-oldest-index-if-storage-is-full/301115/3 "2022-04-27T23:47:23Z")
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