# How to compress data automatically?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 14, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908 "2019-05-14T03:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![david3721](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@david3721](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/david3721)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908/1 "2019-05-14T03:14:32Z")

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I have very huge data very day,I have to delete manually. how to automate data compression elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![gabriel\_tessier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabriel_tessier/32/27911_2.png) [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908/2 "2019-05-14T03:28:17Z")

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Hi,  
Check about the index life cycle in Kibana here you can create a rule to delete depends on different rules:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)

Or rollup: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/xpack-rollup.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/xpack-rollup.html)

There's also curator:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908/3 "2019-05-14T03:31:20Z")

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Firstly I'd probably use only one shard per index.  
Then you can change compression without reindexing. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules.html#index-codec](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules.html#index-codec)

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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:** [June 11, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-data-automatically/180908/4 "2019-06-11T03:31:22Z")

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