# How to get rid of dangling indices

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-rid-of-dangling-indices/113805
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-rid-of-dangling-indices/113805 "2018-01-02T16:11:59Z")
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### Author: ![Diverking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Diverking](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diverking)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-rid-of-dangling-indices/113805/1 "2018-01-02T16:12:00Z")

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We are running a cluster of 3 nodes and I find in the logfiles continious repeating messages:

[2018-01-02T16:24:58,539][WARN][o.e.g.DanglingIndicesState] [lrv171d1] [[.watches/dT22WrbgTM24J0ZuROKQ2A]] can not be imported as a dangling index, as index with same name alreadyexists in cluster metadata  
[2018-01-02T16:24:58,014][WARN][o.e.g.DanglingIndicesState] [lrv171d1] [[.triggered\_watches/05F1we1RQlClDhy3jVIYXA]] can not be imported as a dangling index, as index with same name already exists in cluster metadata  
[2018-01-02T16:24:58,015][WARN][o.e.g.DanglingIndicesState] [lrv171d1] [[.monitoring-alerts-6/x7M\_1l6RTTWT8ZzuI8YrRQ]] can not be imported as a dangling index, as index with same name already exists in cluster metadata

 ![Kibana wathes](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/6/e6643e80e04b958c6399e9feb9cb26b744ffa25b.jpg)  
I also see a double set of triggers in Kibana\>management

Extra information:

- ES 5.6.2 with x-pack on RHEL6 Jvm 1.8.0\_141
- Before we joined the nodes to a cluster they where running as a separate node , all with there own Kibana instance. So I suspect that each kibana instance created these indices on each node.

How Can I fix this?

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### Author: ![Diverking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Diverking](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diverking)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-rid-of-dangling-indices/113805/2 "2018-01-03T17:22:40Z")

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I already fixed the problem of the double set of triggers by

**`DELETE _xpack/watcher/watch/S5sJQbsTQv2j1WWsEWQQuQ_*`**

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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: [January 31, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-rid-of-dangling-indices/113805/3 "2018-01-31T17:23:03Z")

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