# How to know if my curator instance is running fine?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-if-my-curator-instance-is-running-fine/17534
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 15, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-if-my-curator-instance-is-running-fine/17534 "2014-05-15T13:49:00Z")
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### Author:  [@Guillaume\_boufflers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Guillaume_boufflers)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-if-my-curator-instance-is-running-fine/17534/1 "2014-05-15T13:49:00Z")
Hello buds !
I've installed Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana lately ..
I've been playing with those tools for a couple of days now and it's been
so cool, great tool !
Now that i've got data in my elasticsearch base, i'd like to remove the
indexes that are older than an hour.
I made some searches on the web and i found the curator tool. seems great.
I did follow the instructions on the github webpage.
This is the command i ran :
curator --host 192.168.1.12 --port 9200 -T hours -d 1
And Here is the output :
2014-05-15T15:34:44.412 INFO main:333 Job starting
...
2014-05-15T15:34:44.413 INFO \_new\_conn:180 Starting newHTTP connection
(1): 192.168.1.12
2014-05-15T15:34:44.415 INFO log\_request\_success:49 GET [http://192.168.1.12:9200/](http://192.168.1.12:9200/)
[status:200 request:0.002s]
2014-05-15T15:34:44.416 INFO main:359 Deletingindices older than
1 hours...
2014-05-15T15:34:44.418 INFO log\_request\_success:49 GET [http://192.168.1.12:9200/logstash-\*/\_settings?expand\_wildcards=closed](http://192.168.1.12:9200/logstash-*/_settings?expand_wildcards=closed)
[status:200 request:0.001s]
2014-05-15T15:34:44.418 INFO index\_loop:309 DELETE index
operations completed.
2014-05-15T15:34:44.419 INFO main:379 Done in 0:00:
00.010193.
Seems pretty good in fact but the problem (or not) is that i don't see any
difference in my Kibana monitor, i'm still seeing graph from this morning,
i was just wondering if this was a normal behavior or if i did something
wrong with the command i ran.
Is there a way to concretely see if my curator instance is doing the job
just fine ?
Thank you for reading and helping.
Regards, Guillaume.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-if-my-curator-instance-is-running-fine/17534/2 "2014-07-30T21:39:25Z")
Sorry this never got responded to. Unless your indices are hourly, and in
a format that curator recognizes, it will not delete anything.
What are your index names, or your naming schema?
--Aaron
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:49:00 AM UTC-5, Guillaume boufflers wrote:
> Hello buds !
>
> I've installed Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana lately ..
> I've been playing with those tools for a couple of days now and it's been
> so cool, great tool !
> Now that i've got data in my elasticsearch base, i'd like to remove the
> indexes that are older than an hour.
> I made some searches on the web and i found the curator tool. seems great.
> I did follow the instructions on the github webpage.
> This is the command i ran :
>
> curator --host 192.168.1.12 --port 9200 -T hours -d 1
>
> And Here is the output :
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.412 INFO main:333 Job starting
> ...
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.413 INFO \_new\_conn:180 Starting new
> HTTP connection (1): 192.168.1.12
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.415 INFO log\_request\_success:49 GET http://
> 192.168.1.12:9200/ [status:200 request:0.002s]
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.416 INFO main:359 Deleting
> indices older than 1 hours...
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.418 INFO log\_request\_success:49 GET http://
> 192.168.1.12:9200/logstash-\*/\_settings?expand\_wildcards=closed
> [status:200 request:0.001s]
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.418 INFO index\_loop:309 DELETE
> index operations completed.
>
> 2014-05-15T15:34:44.419 INFO main:379 Done in 0:00
> :00.010193.
>
> Seems pretty good in fact but the problem (or not) is that i don't see any
> difference in my Kibana monitor, i'm still seeing graph from this morning,
>
> i was just wondering if this was a normal behavior or if i did something
> wrong with the command i ran.
>
> Is there a way to concretely see if my curator instance is doing the job
> just fine ?
>
> Thank you for reading and helping.
> Regards, Guillaume.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-if-my-curator-instance-is-running-fine/17534/3 "2017-07-06T01:12:07Z")