# Deleting index for security audit log?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-index-for-security-audit-log/86019>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 16, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-index-for-security-audit-log/86019 "2017-05-16T23:55:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-index-for-security-audit-log/86019/1 "2017-05-16T23:55:06Z")

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Hello.

I see that monitoring index has  
[xpack.monitoring.history.duration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/monitoring-settings.html) for deleting index within certain days

However, I do not see parameter for number of days to hold index for [audit index](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/auditing.html) .

Do you need to use curator for audit log index?

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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:** [June 13, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-index-for-security-audit-log/86019/2 "2017-06-13T23:55:38Z")

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