How to properly delete index?

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One other thing I do when I have a small POC cluster I also update the ILM policy to make each index 10GB that way you can clean up smaller chunks

PUT /_ilm/policy/metricbeat
{
    "policy" : {
      "phases" : {
        "hot" : {
          "min_age" : "0ms",
          "actions" : {
            "rollover" : {
              "max_size" : "10gb",
              "max_age" : "30d"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
}

Then you can figure out your delete phase

You can do all this through Kibana UI -> Stack Managenent -> Index Lifecycle Policies

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