# How to make all indices Read-only
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070 "2016-12-27T14:15:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@chris2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chris2016)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/1 "2016-12-27T14:15:52Z")
Hi,
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Does anyone know how to make all indices read-only? I use ELK 5.1.1
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and do not want to use XPACK. Is the approach below the right way to do?
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PUT your\_index/\_settings
{
"index": {
"blocks.read\_only": true
}
}
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Thanks in advance
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Cheers,
Chris
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### Author:  [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/2 "2016-12-27T14:57:36Z")
Hi,
I think this is the right way, but this query will only turn "your\_index" read\_only, not all indices.
Ref: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/index-modules.html#dynamic-index-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/index-modules.html#dynamic-index-settings)
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### Author:  [@chris2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chris2016)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/3 "2016-12-27T16:05:47Z")
Hi,
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I just had a try about the index settings: blocks.read_only, but it does not work.
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After I have set it to true by running curl -XPUT, I still can delete index pattern from from "manage" in kibana.
I also tried to set blocks.write and blocks.metadata to true, and they all do not work.
Does anyone have other ideas?
Cheers,
Chris.
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### Author:  [@chris2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chris2016)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/4 "2016-12-27T16:15:48Z")
Hi,
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I noticed that the index is not physically deleted from elasticsearch (by checking disk) even though the index
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pattern has been removed in Kibana. What I actually want to achieve is that all settings/configurations on
Kibana web interface cannot be modified or removed (at least index pattern cannot be deleted, and possible dashboards, etc).
Probably, is this a Kibana question?
Cheers,
Chris.
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### Author:  [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/5 "2016-12-27T16:18:18Z")
Yes you should ask this question in the Kibana forum.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-all-indices-read-only/70070/6 "2017-01-24T16:18:32Z")
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