# Delete .reporting index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 20, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482 "2023-09-20T18:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnashish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@johnashish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnashish)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482/1 "2023-09-20T18:27:09Z")

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This is regarding my last raised topic -  
Kibana 7.17.3  
So i have multiple csv reports generated and i want to delete them now those reports comes under .reportinf-\* index.  
So when i am trying to delete those i am getting this pop up, so i am wondering if i delete this , kibana could stop functioning or not ?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/0/805e33a1da23c12228e82570c2897cd772a193f2.png)

Now are multiple reports generated.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/6/9635279c326d53ba88aa0b08195f9171caa3d895.png)

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**Author:** ![Priscilla\_Parodi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/priscilla_parodi/32/43047_2.png) [@Priscilla\_Parodi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Priscilla_Parodi)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482/2 "2023-09-20T19:14:13Z")

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Hello @johnashish,

It is safe to delete any `.reporting-*` index if you no longer need access to the report artifacts it holds.

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**Author:** ![johnashish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@johnashish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnashish)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482/3 "2023-09-27T18:05:05Z")

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Thanks @Priscilla_Parodi  
will check this and try

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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:** [October 25, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-reporting-index/343482/4 "2023-10-25T18:05:22Z")

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