# ILM delete phase does not seem to do anything to index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-delete-phase-does-not-seem-to-do-anything-to-index/328592>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-delete-phase-does-not-seem-to-do-anything-to-index/328592 "2023-03-27T09:12:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maretti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maretti/32/118976_2.png) [@Maretti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maretti)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-delete-phase-does-not-seem-to-do-anything-to-index/328592/1 "2023-03-27T09:12:47Z")

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Hi

I have a cloud Instance I use for a research project. It has 180gb disk space and it is almost full and causing problems to my stack. I want to free up some space so I looked at the indices that are using up all my space and came across this hidden indice

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/f/8fce66fb33b5619b08420aa582c76adad68676e1.png)

I set the Index Lifecycle Policy to move data to delete phase when 2 hours old

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/2/e29ee5f291adc645fecb2914ba83c98777280150.png)

But the indice didn't change in size

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/1/31cd1a176256c956c8ca4d59a3b0b105b5538d77.png)

The current phase is delete but it doesn't do anything

```auto
{
  "policy": ".monitoring-8-ilm-policy",
  "phase_definition": {
    "min_age": "2h",
    "actions": {
      "delete": {
        "delete_searchable_snapshot": true
      }
    }
  },
  "version": 13,
  "modified_date_in_millis": 1679905250050
}

```

Any idea's what may be wrong here?

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**Author:** ![Maretti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maretti/32/118976_2.png) [@Maretti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maretti)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-delete-phase-does-not-seem-to-do-anything-to-index/328592/2 "2023-03-28T09:36:44Z")

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I solved the issue

The ILM didn't create a rollover automatically so the data stream kept writing to the indice because of that the indice was never deleted

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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:** [April 25, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-delete-phase-does-not-seem-to-do-anything-to-index/328592/3 "2023-04-25T09:37:28Z")

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