# Elasticsearch: How to delete restricted indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-delete-restricted-indices/378284>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [May 19, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-how-to-delete-restricted-indices/378284 "2025-05-19T09:26:10Z")\
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Hello ,

Ideally it should be possible. Please find below post related to same :

> [@How to delete system indices?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-system-indices/338510):
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> Hi all, My current cluster is an upgraded cluster from version 7.x to 8.x It has alot of system indices that nolonger require in the cluster but whenever i tried to delete it. I got this message { "error": { "root\_cause": [{ "type": "security\_exception", "reason": "action [indices:admin/delete] is unauthorized for user [elastic] with effective roles [superuser] on restricted indices [.kibana\_8.6.2\_001], this action is granted by the index privileges [delete\_index,…

Please share if you still facing any issue.

Thanks!!

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