# Deleting specific indices with Curator
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 27, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149 "2018-09-27T08:38:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Jasper\_Nygaard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasper_Nygaard)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149/1 "2018-09-27T08:38:35Z")
Setting up Curator to reindex into weekly indices (monthly gets too big), and when done I need to delete the daily indices - With the delete action, is it possible to delete specified indices? Haven't been able to find much documentation besides the age filter type.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149/2 "2018-09-27T12:22:54Z")
No. You would need to use filters to select. If you're using a full weekly time period, why not look into the [`period`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.5/filtertype_period.html) filter?
Even better still, why not switch to using Rollover indices rather than daily? Then you bypass the need for reindexing altogether, as you allow the shards/indices to grow to your target size and then rollover. If you can use this approach, it's much less overhead on the cluster.
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### Author:  [@Jasper\_Nygaard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasper_Nygaard)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149/3 "2018-09-28T07:51:19Z")
Hi Aaron, the period filter option is exactly what I needed. However, didn't know about the rollover API and it looks like it may solve the same problem. Do you know if it is possible to start a new index every week?
Thanks for the input!
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149/4 "2018-09-28T20:48:22Z")
> [@Jasper\_Nygaard](#):
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> Do you know if it is possible to start a new index every week?
You could just have a Curator job with only a rollover action with a `max_age` of something small, like `1s`, and then call that at midnight on Sunday or Monday (depending on when you start the week. Magic! New index every week!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-specific-indices-with-curator/150149/5 "2018-10-26T20:59:48Z")
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