# ILM phase don't delete indexes (els 7.9)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-phase-dont-delete-indexes-els-7-9/263704>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [February 9, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-phase-dont-delete-indexes-els-7-9/263704 "2021-02-09T09:25:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-phase-dont-delete-indexes-els-7-9/263704/1 "2021-02-09T09:25:29Z")

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My ILM policy

```auto
PUT _ilm/policy/delete-after-7-days
{
  "policy": {
    "phases": {
      "hot": {
        "min_age": "0ms",
        "actions": {
          "set_priority": {
            "priority": 100
          }
        }
      },
      "delete": {
        "min_age": "7d",
        "actions": {
          "delete": {
            "delete_searchable_snapshot": true
          }

```

GET .ds-logstash-f-lb-2021.01.29-000001/\_ilm/explain

```auto
  "indices" : {
    ".ds-logstash-fornex-lb-2021.01.29-000001" : {
      "index" : ".ds-logstash-f-lb-2021.01.29-000001",
      "managed" : true,
      "policy" : "delete-after-7-days",
      "lifecycle_date_millis" : 1611878426807,
      "age" : "11.38d",
      "phase" : "delete",
      "phase_time_millis" : 1612483233516,
      "action" : "delete",
      "action_time_millis" : 1612483233516,
      "step" : "delete",
      "step_time_millis" : 1612483781849,
      "phase_execution" : {
        "policy" : "delete-after-7-days",
        "phase_definition" : {
          "min_age" : "7d",
          "actions" : {
            "delete" : {
              "delete_searchable_snapshot" : true
            }
          }
        },
        "version" : 4,
        "modified_date_in_millis" : 1612254154538
      }

```

index not deleted today is 2021 feb 09. I don't understand why

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**Author:** ![zakabluk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8baadc/32.png) [@zakabluk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zakabluk)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-phase-dont-delete-indexes-els-7-9/263704/2 "2021-02-10T11:08:06Z")

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In logs I see error

```auto
"stacktrace": ["java.lang.IllegalStateException: index [.ds-logstash-f-lb-2021.01.29-000001] is the write index for data stream [logstash-f-lb-2021.01.29]. stopping execution of lifecycle [delete-after-7-days] as a data stream's write index cannot be deleted. manually rolling over the index will resume the execution of the policy as the index will not be the data stream's write index anymore",
"at 

```

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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:** [March 10, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-phase-dont-delete-indexes-els-7-9/263704/3 "2021-03-10T11:08:24Z")

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