# Index management

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 6, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393 "2021-09-06T02:55:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alipujaistopo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alipujaistopo/32/50791_2.png) [@alipujaistopo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alipujaistopo)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393/1 "2021-09-06T02:55:10Z")

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what does indices mean? and why do i have so many indices? and what is the difference between xxxx-000004 and xxxx-000005?

here's my indices for example:

```auto
* winlogbeat-7.10.2-2021.08.22-000005
* auditbeat-7.11.2-2021.07.23-000004
* winlogbeat-7.10.2-2021.07.23-000004
* auditbeat-7.11.2-2021.08.22-000005
* filebeat-7.10.1-2021.07.23-000004
* filebeat-7.10.1-2021.06.23-000003
* metricbeat-7.13.4-2021.08.03-000001
* filebeat-7.10.1-2021.08.22-000005
* winlogbeat-7.10.2-2021.06.23-000003
* winlogbeat-7.10.2-2021.05.24-000002
* winlogbeat-7.10.2-2021.04.24-000001
* metricbeat-7.13.4-2021.09.02-000002
* filebeat-7.10.1-2021.04.24-000001
* filebeat-7.10.1-2021.05.24-000002
* auditbeat-7.11.2-2021.06.23-000003
* auditbeat-7.11.2-2021.04.24-000001

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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:** [September 6, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393/2 "2021-09-06T04:46:22Z")

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You have that many because you had data from all those Beats talking to Elasticsearch.

The different numbers on the end are the historic data.

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**Author:** ![alipujaistopo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alipujaistopo/32/50791_2.png) [@alipujaistopo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alipujaistopo)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393/3 "2021-09-06T05:31:53Z")

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how to make the data not always make historic data. I mean I only have 1 file for 1 beats not much like this

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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:** [October 4, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-management/283393/4 "2021-10-04T05:32:22Z")

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