# Index got deleted twice

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-got-deleted-twice/179323>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-got-deleted-twice/179323 "2019-05-02T09:23:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arvind\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arvind_sharma/32/45408_2.png) [@Arvind\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arvind_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-got-deleted-twice/179323/1 "2019-05-02T09:23:21Z")

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Is there any reason why my index can be deleted by itself.This index is quite heavy around 300 mb and having 100,000 + rows. Does elastic removes or clears index by itself in any ways?  
Thanks in Advance.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-got-deleted-twice/179323/2 "2019-05-02T10:58:30Z")

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No.

Most of the time users reporting that:

- have a crontab which is running a DELETE request
- have curator installed
- are exposing their cluster on internet without any security
- are using a very old version of elasticsearch (1.x) which is joining automatically another cluster and someone else internally is removing the index
- ...

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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:** [May 30, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-got-deleted-twice/179323/3 "2019-05-30T10:58:30Z")

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