# Elastic search curator is failing **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 26, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447 "2018-06-26T14:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/1 "2018-06-26T14:10:18Z")
[root@BVELKL03 elasticsearch-curator]# curator\_cli --host localhost show\_indices --filter\_list '{"filtertype":"age","source":"name","timestring":"%Y.%m.%d","unit":"days","unit\_count":30}' 2018-06-26 07:07:23,177 ERROR Schema error: required key not provided @ data['direction'] 2018-06-26 07:07:23,177 ERROR Schema error: Configuration: filter: Location: singleton, filter #0: {'filtertype': 'age', 'source': 'name', 'timestring': '%Y.%m.%d', 'unit': 'days', 'unit\_count': 30}: Bad Value: "(could not determine)", required key not provided @ data['direction']. Check configuration file. 2018-06-26 07:07:23,177 CRITICAL Unable to parse filters: Configuration: filters: Location: show\_indices singleton action "filters": Bad Value: "None", Configuration: filter: Location: singleton, filter #0: {'filtertype': 'age', 'source': 'name', 'timestring': '%Y.%m.%d', 'unit': 'days', 'unit\_count': 30}: Bad Value: "(could not determine)", required key not provided @ data['direction']. Check configuration file.. Check configuration file. I have the following error couldn't understand where to find of save the configuration file ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/2 "2018-06-26T16:55:41Z")
Hey i was able to fix this issue, but how do i make sure my indices are deleted root@BVELKL03 elasticsearch-curator]# curator\_cli --config curator.yml show\_indices --filter\_list '{"filtertype":"age","source":"name","timestring":"%Y.%m.%d","unit":"days","unit\_count":30}' this is returning empty does this mean that the indices are deleted ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/3 "2018-06-29T20:42:45Z")
If you run `curator_cli --config curator.yml show_indices` _without_ a `--filter_list`, it will show you all indices in the cluster. ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/4 "2018-07-02T20:21:41Z")
@theuntergeek can you provide a sample to delete the indices which are not time based actions: 1: action: delete\_snapshots description: \>- Delete indices older than 30 days (based on index name), for logstash- prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an actionable list of indices (ignore\_empty\_list) and exit cleanly. options: ignore\_empty\_list: True timeout\_override: continue\_if\_exception: False disable\_action: False filters: - filtertype: age source: field\_stats direction: older unit: hours unit\_count: 1 this is not working I have timebased indices and non time based indices ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/5 "2018-07-02T20:44:06Z")
To use [`source: field_stats`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.5/filtertype_age.html#_literal_field_stats_literal_based_ages) you need to provide a [`field`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.5/fe_field.html) name (if not `@timestamp`), as well as [`stats_result`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.5/fe_stats_result.html) if not using `min_value` as the value for `stats_result`. > [@sandeepnarla22322](#): > > can you provide a sample to delete the indices which are not time based How will you determine which indices to delete? Index names alone? Will you need to exclude time-series indices? ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/6 "2018-07-05T15:44:03Z")
I have problem i want to delete indices irrespective of whether time based or non time based indices which are older than 7 days ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/7 "2018-07-05T16:22:47Z")
Your recourse is to use `source: creation_date`, which is set at index creation time: ```auto - filtertype: age source: creation_date direction: older unit: days unit_count: 7 ``` This will delete indices older than 7 days based on when they were created, with no regard to any other criteria but the index creation date. ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/8 "2018-07-05T17:05:51Z")
even after deleting i can data in kibana ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/9 "2018-07-05T19:12:36Z")
i meant to say al the indices which are older are available in kibana ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/10 "2018-07-05T19:29:47Z")
actions: 1: action: delete\_indices description: \>- Delete indices older than 5 minutes. options: ignore\_empty\_list: True timeout\_override: continue\_if\_exception: False disable\_action: False filters: - filtertype: age source: creation\_date direction: older unit: days unit\_count: 7 unable to delete using the following actions2.yml curator.yml * * * # Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value. None will be a string, # not a Python "NoneType" client: hosts: - 127.0.0.1 port: 9200 url\_prefix: use\_ssl: False certificate: client\_cert: client\_key: ssl\_no\_validate: False http\_auth: timeout: 30 master\_only: False logging: loglevel: INFO logfile: logformat: default blacklist: [] ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/11 "2018-07-05T21:04:15Z")
YAML is indent-sensitive. I can't troubleshoot your configuration without the original formatting preserved. Please use the `` code tags or encapsulate your pasted content inside of triple back ticks, like this: ```` ``` PASTE HERE ``` ```` Were there any logs resulting from your attempt? ---
**Author:** ![sandeepnarla22322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@sandeepnarla22322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepnarla22322)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/12 "2018-07-09T14:32:09Z")
thanks untergreek i validated using yaml validator it resolved curator\_cli --config curator.yml delete\_indices --filter\_list '{"filtertype":"age","source":"creation\_date","direction":"older","unit":"days","unit\_count":7}' I am planning to use this command to delete the indices every in cron and I have an usecase where I want to delete few index patterns sesvg1,sppvg1,sppvg2 every 30 days and few index patterns named tmoes, sem every 7 days can you help on how to achieve using the same command ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-curator-is-failing/137447/13 "2018-08-06T14:32:11Z")
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