# Elasticsearch creating indices from the past and putting them in the future

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-creating-indices-from-the-past-and-putting-them-in-the-future/21931>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-creating-indices-from-the-past-and-putting-them-in-the-future/21931 "2015-01-30T18:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kellan\_Strong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kellan\_Strong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kellan_Strong)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-creating-indices-from-the-past-and-putting-them-in-the-future/21931/1 "2015-01-30T18:32:51Z")

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Hello all,

Since the beginning of the new year, elasticsearch decided anything with  
the indice logstash-\*, that it was going to put, from nov/dec of last year,  
into indices for this year. The problem is that no matter how many times  
they are deleted, they keep showing back up. So the indices are now 2015  
instead of 2014. I eventually end up with 600+ indices which then crashes  
the cluster. (I use hourly indices). This is happening on all my clusters,  
in qa and in production.

I am running version 1.3.7.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-creating-indices-from-the-past-and-putting-them-in-the-future/21931/2 "2017-07-06T00:35:32Z")

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