# Deleting documents based on timestam
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506 "2016-11-18T08:15:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rajkumar3v](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar3v)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/1 "2016-11-18T08:15:54Z")
Hello Experts,
I want to delete some events based on time stamp, below once is the time stamp of an server event which unnecessarily pushed same data multiple times with in a minute, for a minute single time stamp with doc is enough and need to delete others.
2016-10-21T15:44:02.8364001
2016-10-21T15:44:13.8364025
2016-10-21T15:44:23.8364050
2016-10-21T15:44:45.8364052
2016-10-21T15:44:59.8364082
Hepl me to resolve this.
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/2 "2016-11-18T08:55:40Z")
You could just search for these particular timestamps, get the ids of the documents that you want to remove and then delete them by id.
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### Author:  [@rajkumar3v](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar3v)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/3 "2016-11-18T09:11:48Z")
Thank u Adrien,
for fewer events i can search and delete but i have 1000's of events like this and because of this excess documents my index size is getting bigger. is it possible to pick a single timestamp and remove others.. ?
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/4 "2016-11-18T09:14:49Z")
Maybe you could automate the process using scipting?
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### Author:  [@rajkumar3v](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar3v)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/5 "2016-11-18T10:17:38Z")
yes am trying via API/CURL but can not filter a single timestamp from multiple, for this i can differentiate timestamp with their seconds interval and keep any one record and delete others is difficult.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-documents-based-on-timestam/66506/6 "2016-12-16T10:18:34Z")
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