# How to open indices for last 30 days only
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-indices-for-last-30-days-only/128958
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 21, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-indices-for-last-30-days-only/128958 "2018-04-21T08:13:26Z")
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### Author:  [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-indices-for-last-30-days-only/128958/1 "2018-04-21T08:13:26Z")
Hi,
Using curator or any other way , how can i open indices for last 30 days only.
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Niraj
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### Author:  [@FatalGlitch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FatalGlitch)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-indices-for-last-30-days-only/128958/2 "2018-04-21T09:35:39Z")
Below is an example curator action file that looks at the index name, and uses that to determine age. Note the format below is YYYY-MM-DD (2018-04-21)
If you don't have timestamps in the index name, you can change the source to created\_date, and drop the timestring option.
Make sure you run curator with --dry-run to verify it's going to do what you want.
```
actions:
1:
action: open
description: >-
Opens the last 30 days of indices based on YYYY-MM-DD timestamp in index name
options:
continue_if_exception: false
filters:
- filtertype: age
source: name
timestring: '%Y-%m-%d'
direction: younger
unit: days
unit_count: 30
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-indices-for-last-30-days-only/128958/3 "2018-05-19T09:35:49Z")
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