# Index delete by x-pack
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663 "2018-04-19T09:27:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Gaurav\_Agarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Agarwal)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663/1 "2018-04-19T09:27:46Z")
Hello
I am new to the ELK stack and using version 5.6.8 for my tool development. Would like to know is there a feature in x-pack to automatically delete the older indexes and can that be customized according to the user.
Regards
Gaurav
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### Author:  [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663/2 "2018-04-19T09:56:21Z")
Hi,
See here for more in regards to curating indices past a certain date time: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/actions.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/actions.html)
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### Author:  [@Gaurav\_Agarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Agarwal)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663/3 "2018-04-19T10:08:24Z")
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-delete-by-x-pack/128663/4 "2018-05-17T10:08:39Z")
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