Deleting daily indices

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I am having daily indices. I want to delete past indices beyond the last seven days. I read about date maths in index names but I dont find a direct way of doing that in a single query.

My current strategy is as follows:

  1. get all indices using _cat/indices API
  2. figure out old indices
  3. call DELETE iteratively on those indices

Please let me know if there is a better way to do it.

I also looked at Curator but it is no more supported. Are those functionalities incorporated in some other tool?

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I think Index Lifecycle Management is the feature for you. It is not yet released, but is expected to appear in the next minor release (6.6).

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Great. I was thinking if it is not there I can add a feature request for it.

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Who told you that Curator was no longer supported? It works quite well for every minor release of Elasticsearch 5.x and 6.x

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Ah, my bad. Just checked the supported versions and it says Curator version 5.x will work with ES 6.x. Thank you for clarifying.

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