# Index curation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933 "2019-04-09T00:55:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gabriel\_tessier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabriel_tessier/32/27911_2.png) [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933/1 "2019-04-09T00:55:02Z")

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Hi,  
I use APM with python and it's really a great tools especially for celery! Great thanks for this tools 🥳

Just one question is there something integrated to curate the indices so far I use curator to remove the old data and reindex in monthly indices. Maybe there's configuration options I mess.

Sorry if there was something in the documentation, but so far I found nothing about.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933/2 "2019-04-09T01:12:13Z")

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Have a look at ILM - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch///reference/master/ilm-start.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch///reference/master/ilm-start.html)

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**Author:** ![gabriel\_tessier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabriel_tessier/32/27911_2.png) [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933/3 "2019-04-09T03:43:08Z")

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Thanks for the reply I already know about ILM.

My question was not correctly written I though more about an option inside APM to set the number of indices we want to keep or a default settings, like monitoring indices that are kept 7 days by default.

But there's no settings panel/options for APM 😅

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**Author:** ![gil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gil/32/41911_2.png) [@gil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gil)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933/4 "2019-04-09T13:04:38Z")

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@gabriel_tessier you haven't missed it, we're working on ILM integration but it's not automatically set up by apm-server yet. In the meantime, [manual index lifecycle management](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/7.0/manual-ilm-setup.html) is documented if you'd prefer that to your current curator setup. You can expect apm-server to set this up for you in the future.

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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 30, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-curation/175933/5 "2019-04-30T09:04:47Z")

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