# How to compress ELK indexes in Elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504 "2020-04-30T09:06:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@janmichae.reyes4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/janmichae.reyes4)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504/1 "2020-04-30T09:06:24Z")
hi,
Seeking your assistance on how or best practices in compressing all indexes in Elasticsearch to reduce the disk usage.
i really appreciate the help on this.
Thank you,
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504/2 "2020-04-30T09:40:47Z")
Welcome!
Have a look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tune-for-disk-usage.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tune-for-disk-usage.html)
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### Author:  [@janmichae.reyes4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/janmichae.reyes4)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504/3 "2020-04-30T13:34:42Z")
Thank you. will have this check.
I'm newbie in ELK Stack 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-compress-elk-indexes-in-elasticsearch/230504/4 "2020-05-28T13:34:48Z")
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