# How to delete only last day's data in Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034 "2016-01-12T20:46:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bumblebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@Bumblebee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bumblebee)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/1 "2016-01-12T20:46:28Z")

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Hello,

How do I delete only last day's data in Elasticsearch ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/2 "2016-01-12T21:30:11Z")

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Are you using timeseries indexes, i.e. indexes named xxx-2016.01.12 or similar?

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**Author:** ![Bumblebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@Bumblebee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bumblebee)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/3 "2016-01-13T07:53:41Z")

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Hi,

Unfortunatly not.

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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:** [January 13, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/4 "2016-01-13T08:10:27Z")

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If you don't have any timestamp in your data, then you can't.  
If you have, you can add the delete-by-query plugin.

But you should prefer using time based indices.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/5 "2016-01-13T08:10:32Z")

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In that case you can use the delete by query API, which is deprecated but available via a plugin in 2.0. If this is something you'll be doing often you should look into timeseries indexes.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-only-last-days-data-in-elasticsearch/39034/6 "2017-07-05T23:25:01Z")

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