# Indices are not deleteing using Lifecycle policy
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105 "2022-06-01T09:47:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@santosh\_rout](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/santosh_rout)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105/1 "2022-06-01T09:47:59Z")
In elastic 7.12, I have tried through kibana gui but indices are not able to linked so I used these commands in cli but Indices are linked in kibana but not deleting so please help me on this?
#curl -u elastic: -XPUT -sk ":9200/\_ilm/policy/central-container-accesslog\_policy" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{ "policy":{ "phases":{ "delete":{ "min\_age":"3d",
"actions":{ "delete":{ } } } } }}' | jq .
#curl -u elastic: -XPUT -sk ":9200/\_template/central-container-accesslog\_template" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{ "index\_patterns":["central-caaslb01-logs-\*"], "settings":{ "number\_of\_shards":2, "number\_of\_replicas":1, "index.lifecycle.name":"central-container-accesslog\_policy" }}' | jq .
#curl -u elastic: -XPUT -sk ":9200/central-container-accesslog-index" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{ "settings":{ "number\_of\_shards":2, "number\_of\_replicas":1, "index.lifecycle.name":"central-container-accesslog\_policy" }}' | jq .
#curl -u elastic: -XGET -sk ":9200/\_ilm/policy/central-container-accesslog\_policy"
In Kibana:-
PUT \_ilm/policy/central-container-accesslog\_policy
{
"policy": {
"phases": {
"hot": {
"actions": {
"set\_priority": {
"priority": 100
}
},
"min\_age": "0ms"
},
"delete": {
"min\_age": "3d",
"actions": {
"delete": {
"delete\_searchable\_snapshot": true
}
}
}
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@ibra\_013](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ibra_013)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105/2 "2022-06-01T10:23:58Z")
Hi @santosh_rout
in order to check if the ILM policy is working run this API
```auto
GET /_ilm/explain
```
> **[Explain lifecycle API | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.2\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ilm-explain-lifecycle.html)**
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### Author:  [@santosh\_rout](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/santosh_rout)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105/3 "2022-06-01T10:37:13Z")
Dear @ibra_013
Yes, its working. i can get so many indices using target as central-caaslb01-logs-\* but its showing "managed":false so how do i make as true ?
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### Author:  [@santosh\_rout](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/santosh_rout)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105/4 "2022-06-02T09:59:52Z")
Dear @ibra_013
# [resource\_already\_exists\_exception when running tests] how to fix this issue?
PUT test-000001
{
"aliases": {
"test-alias":{
"is\_write\_index": true
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-are-not-deleteing-using-lifecycle-policy/306105/5 "2022-06-30T10:00:00Z")
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