# How to identiry duplicates and delete it in index **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 22, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-identiry-duplicates-and-delete-it-in-index/307830 "2022-06-22T05:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![RabBit\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rabbit_br/32/82261_2.png) [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-identiry-duplicates-and-delete-it-in-index/307830/4 "2022-06-22T13:42:12Z")
It seems to be the same problem. > [@How to identify and remove duplicates in Elasticsearch index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-identify-and-remove-duplicates-in-elasticsearch-index/307866): > > we are using elasticsearch 7.11.1 recently we observed an issue and below are the points for it. we store data for every 15 mins interval and we get time stamp from our input file (ex: 05:00, 23:15, 20:30, 11:45 ) recently we observed our input file at 23:15 has 1890 records, but index has 3533 records. now we want to delete 1643 duplicate records from index, with out disturbing 1890 records. We need API query for that. for example input file name product sale id sai pen 100 1 kumar car … --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-identiry-duplicates-and-delete-it-in-index/307830)._