# FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 5, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282 "2017-12-05T08:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![keremcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@keremcan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keremcan)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forbidden-12-index-read-only-allow-delete-api/110282/3 "2017-12-09T13:05:05Z")

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Same issue here. gone crazy trying to solve.

Edit: i think my problem is low storage. just check your storage first. when it's low, kibana auto changes its config to read-only mode. to deal with it, go to your dev tools console and  
run below command:

> PUT .kibana/\_settings  
> {  
> "index": {  
> "blocks": {  
> "read\_only\_allow\_delete": "false"  
> }  
> }  
> }

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