# How to remove filebeat (index/Data) to reclaim space

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-filebeat-index-data-to-reclaim-space/202032>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-filebeat-index-data-to-reclaim-space/202032 "2019-10-02T18:45:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fosiul\_Alam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fosiul_alam/32/43335_2.png) [@Fosiul\_Alam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fosiul_Alam)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-filebeat-index-data-to-reclaim-space/202032/1 "2019-10-02T18:45:32Z")

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Hi  
my disk is almost full, i need to clear old data (i.e index or data or indices) what is the best way to do ?  
Can i just select filebeat-index which are more then 10 old and jsut click on Delete ?  
will that clear used space ?

Please let me know , i am mainly using filebeat,metrixbeat and audiobeat  
bellow are the values  
Documents  
415,399,385  
Disk Usage  
104.9 GB  
Primary Shards  
66

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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:** [October 30, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-filebeat-index-data-to-reclaim-space/202032/2 "2019-10-30T18:45:39Z")

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