# 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")\
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**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")

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> [@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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