I've noticed today that my monitoring cluster (single node) isn't deleting any old indices. I haven't changed any of the default settings ad I now find myself with indices going back several months, and a very full disk. I need to delete them and get the automatic deletion working.
So what can prevent the automatic deletion mechanism from working? Is there anywhere I can check to see why they haven't been deleting automatically after 7 days? Does the cluster health have to be green for example? I only have a single node for the monitoring cluster and as I haven't tampered with the monitoring templates, it still tries to create replica shards and leave them unallocated. Is this why the indices aren't being cleared out after 7 days perhaps?
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