# Index reapears 1sec after deleting it

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522 "2020-07-09T11:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![defalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/defalt/32/71379_2.png) [@defalt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/defalt)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522/1 "2020-07-09T11:49:51Z")

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Hi, I try to delete 2 indices on my cluster.

```auto
DELETE http://elastic:PASSWORD@IP:9200/index

```

I get back **acknowledged true**.

It gets delteted for 1 second and after that it reapears  
What it looks like when I look at the shards 1 second after it got delted  
`_Cat/shards`

```auto
index 0 p STARTED 0 208b IP gotham_node2
index 0 r UNASSIGNED      

```

Terminal output of gotham\_node2

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/9/398e4fa7bbeb6d980d1965cb14cd6001f81d3f57.jpeg)

Why does this happen and how to fix this?

Thanks,  
_defalt_

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522/2 "2020-07-09T11:53:38Z")

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Do you have anything indexing into this index that causes it to be recreated?

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**Author:** ![defalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/defalt/32/71379_2.png) [@defalt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/defalt)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522/3 "2020-07-09T11:58:15Z")

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That was it. In the background logstash was running.  
Thanks

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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:** [August 6, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-reapears-1sec-after-deleting-it/240522/4 "2020-08-06T11:58:16Z")

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