# How to delete .monitoring-es-7-mb-\* indices automatically after period of time?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-monitoring-es-7-mb-indices-automatically-after-period-of-time/220194
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-monitoring-es-7-mb-indices-automatically-after-period-of-time/220194 "2020-02-20T13:20:51Z")
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### Author:  [@elk51211](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk51211)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-monitoring-es-7-mb-indices-automatically-after-period-of-time/220194/1 "2020-02-20T13:20:51Z")
How to delete .monitoring-es-7-mb-\* indices automatically after period of time? Is there a way to assign a index lifecycle policy to the monitoring in the metricbeat.yaml file?
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-monitoring-es-7-mb-indices-automatically-after-period-of-time/220194/2 "2020-02-21T22:46:10Z")
Hi, how many days worth of such indices are you seeing? Would you mind posting the results of these two API calls?
- `GET _cat/indices/.monitoring*mb*`
- `GET _license?filter_path=license.type,license.status`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-monitoring-es-7-mb-indices-automatically-after-period-of-time/220194/3 "2020-03-20T23:00:27Z")
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