# How to delete before 24 hours elasticsearch document
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799 "2018-02-07T10:11:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@omid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omid)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/1 "2018-02-07T10:11:57Z")
hello
Im would delete **before 24 hours** elasticsearch document
And put this inside the cron
what is the query " delete before 24 hours elasticsearch document" ??
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### Author:  [@omid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omid)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/2 "2018-02-07T10:47:16Z")
my elk server received log from 4 nginx server,
I just want to keep logs 24 hours in advance,
And the rest of it will be erased
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### Author:  [@omid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omid)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/3 "2018-02-07T10:53:36Z")
```
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/filebeat-2018.02.07/_query' -d '
{
"query": {
"filtered" : {
"query" : {
"term" : { "termName" : "termValue" }
},
"filter" : {
"range" : { "@timestamp" : { "lt" : "now-30d" }}
}
}
}
}'
```
Something like that
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### Author:  [@omid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omid)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/4 "2018-02-08T07:52:04Z")
**Why does not someone answer?**
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/5 "2018-02-08T08:05:09Z")
Read [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) and specifically the "Also be patient" part.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/6 "2018-02-08T08:07:18Z")
Here is the documentation for the delete by query: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/docs-delete-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/docs-delete-by-query.html)
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### Author:  [@omid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omid)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/7 "2018-02-08T14:20:23Z")
Thankful
I solved the problem using this command
`curator_cli --host 127.0.0.1 --timeout 300 --port 9200 --http_auth elastic:changeme delete_indices --filter_list '[{"filtertype":"age", "source":"name", "direction":"older", "unit":"days", "unit_count":1, "timestring":"%Y.%m.%d"}]'`
I just want to put this command inside the **cron** or **crontab**??
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-before-24-hours-elasticsearch-document/118799/8 "2018-03-08T14:20:23Z")
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