# Disable automatic creation of daily indexes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293 "2020-05-26T09:40:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@michielM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michielM)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/1 "2020-05-26T09:40:49Z")
Hey all,
I recently created custom index names because I needed spaces for customers, and each customer needed an index to link to the space. So that's what I did. I have these indexes now.
- auditbeat-customer1-01/01/2000
- filebeat--customer1-01/01/2000
- metricbeat-customer1-01/01/2000
- auditbeat-customer2-01/01/2000
- filebeat--customer2-01/01/2000
- metricbeat-customer2-01/01/2000
Previously, my indexes would have stayed open until they reached 50GB.
Now a new index is created every day for each beat. So I am getting new indexes every day, which I rather don't. I'd like to keep the same index until it reaches 50GB.
But I have no idea on how to do this. Any ideas?
Below is the config of my **beats.yml**
#=============================== Index management =============================
setup.ilm.enabled: false
output.elasticsearch.index: "auditbeat-customer1-%{[agent.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
setup.template.name: "auditbeat-customer1"
setup.template.pattern: "auditbeat-customer1-_"
setup.dashboards.index: "auditbeat-customer1-_"
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/2 "2020-05-26T09:46:39Z")
> [@michielM](#):
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> I'd like to keep the same index until it reaches 50GB.
You need to use ILM to do this. You can specify custom index names though.
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### Author:  [@michielM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michielM)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/4 "2020-05-26T10:02:21Z")
How do I do this? Thanks for the quick reply!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/5 "2020-05-26T22:00:47Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/ilm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/ilm.html), and the other beats have similar pages 🙂
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### Author:  [@michielM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michielM)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/6 "2020-05-27T10:11:06Z")
So, does it mean that if I set ilm.enabled to auto, I can use custom index names and use my policy?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-automatic-creation-of-daily-indexes/234293/7 "2020-06-24T12:11:09Z")
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