# How to remove auto indexes in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140 "2020-06-22T18:56:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![impkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/impkos/32/54609_2.png) [@impkos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/impkos)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/1 "2020-06-22T18:56:47Z")

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![why](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/8/58aaf5b64da61ccf1208f3e54f242824639fedbf.jpeg)

Help remove indexes

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**Author:** ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/2 "2020-06-22T19:05:17Z")

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Hello @impkos,  
What do you mean by auto indexes?

ILM history indices store the history of the events performed on ILM.  
For the Filebeat or Heartbeat indices, those are there because you have those clients sending data to Elasticsearch and they're rotated using ILM rollover.

In order to remove them after a specific amount of time, you have to edit the ILM policy.

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**Author:** ![impkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/impkos/32/54609_2.png) [@impkos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/impkos)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/3 "2020-06-22T19:21:54Z")

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I need to remove them forcibly, without waiting for the use of ILM

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**Author:** ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/4 "2020-06-22T19:40:09Z")

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You can delete them with the delete API or from the Kibana UI (index management), but always keep the latest index (the one with the higher counter) per index type.

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**Author:** ![impkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/impkos/32/54609_2.png) [@impkos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/impkos)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/5 "2020-06-22T19:51:24Z")

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Thank you so much !

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-auto-indexes-in-kibana/238140/6 "2020-07-20T19:51:34Z")

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