# Does elastic have data other than the indices data

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [April 20, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672 "2021-04-20T08:14:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![lstoneir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@lstoneir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lstoneir)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/1 "2021-04-20T08:14:22Z")

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this is kibana stack monitoring area:  
 ![Screenshot_2021-04-20 Stack Monitoring - Overview - Elastic](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/0/d06909956afd487b1dc2f1209e0c87472ecb7100.png)

when i run `du -ha /var | sort -rh | head -40` see this :

```auto
1.7T	/var
1.5T	/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices
1.5T	/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0
1.5T	/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes
1.5T	/var/lib/elasticsearch

```

1.5T-1.2T = 300GB !!!  
ALL indices are green and there is no red one!

what is this 300GB? how can i delete it?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/2 "2021-04-20T22:55:37Z")

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It could be due to pending shard merges. Is it causing issues?

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### Author: ![lstoneir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@lstoneir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lstoneir)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/3 "2021-04-22T05:37:10Z")

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yes my hdd usage was 90%  
i wanted to delete extra datas

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/4 "2021-04-22T05:38:05Z")

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What is the output from the `_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API?

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### Author: ![lstoneir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@lstoneir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lstoneir)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/5 "2021-04-22T05:44:11Z")

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As I said I wanted to delete. Now, after deleting some of the original indices, 60% of the hard drive is used!

I had to delete. The server had a serious problem.

It's still interesting to me, but what is that 300 GB?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/6 "2021-04-22T09:11:56Z")

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What is the output from the `_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API?

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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: [May 20, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-have-data-other-than-the-indices-data/270672/7 "2021-05-20T09:12:08Z")

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