# Elastic Cloud Fills up to infinity

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** fleet, ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [December 6, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999 "2021-12-06T02:58:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![lamp123432](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@lamp123432](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lamp123432)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999/1 "2021-12-06T02:58:26Z")

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Hello, I created an instance in Elastic Cloud, and I used Fleet to install Metricbeat, Endpoint Security, etc.

My instance started 1GB of RAM, and was costing me $40 a month or so. Now, it is costing me about $300 a month because Elastic Cloud by default, doesn't come with any Index Lifecycle Policies, data comes in and it just keep filing the disk, and I have to increase capacity.

It is a pain to delete data manually. So now I'm looking at creating an IL Policy, but there are TONS of Index Templates to associate the policy to:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/7/7787f37b84012ad9a13995df601bcb8a63ff9f2a.png)

How did you guys go about having a decent lifecycle policy for Elastic Cloud and Fleet?

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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:** [December 6, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999/2 "2021-12-06T03:30:17Z")

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What version are you using?

Because by default, Fleet uses datastreams, which also use ILM - [Data streams | Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/7.15/data-streams.html)

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**Author:** ![lamp123432](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@lamp123432](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lamp123432)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999/3 "2021-12-06T03:34:27Z")

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I'm using v7.15.2.

When I look at the built-in ILMs, I see the following:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/5/c50a4102d87c234984b586fe98c6ad48b1d1f5f9.png)

It's unclear which ones I should modify to, say, keep the beats and endpoint security data for no more than 2 weeks, should I go through all of them and set a delete action?

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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:** [January 3, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-fills-up-to-infinity/290999/4 "2022-01-03T03:35:16Z")

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