# Kibana 5 - management reporting - where are stored the generated .pdf reports and how to "purge" these documents

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-management-reporting-where-are-stored-the-generated-pdf-reports-and-how-to-purge-these-documents/67641 "2016-11-30T15:30:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Orsius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/orsius/32/13646_2.png) [@Orsius](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Orsius)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-management-reporting-where-are-stored-the-generated-pdf-reports-and-how-to-purge-these-documents/67641/1 "2016-11-30T15:30:05Z")

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Dear All, I played a lot with the [reporting feature](https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/reporting) of kibana 5 it's very useful; but now I would like to purge these generated documents.

Under the kibana "management" and then "Reporting" I can see and download my reported documents but I'm not able to find any options to remove them ?

Is any one can help me with that?

The idea is to generate them for a couple of days or hours or to setup a purge rule (like the elasticsearch indices cleaning with curator for example). Thanks in advance for your help.

kr,  
O.

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**Author:** ![Orsius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/orsius/32/13646_2.png) [@Orsius](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Orsius)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-management-reporting-where-are-stored-the-generated-pdf-reports-and-how-to-purge-these-documents/67641/2 "2016-11-30T15:34:38Z")

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My bad I may find a lead to fix my issue, they are talking about the .reporting-\* index in kibana documentation.  
( [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-reporting.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/xpack-reporting.html) )

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-management-reporting-where-are-stored-the-generated-pdf-reports-and-how-to-purge-these-documents/67641/3 "2016-12-01T16:32:40Z")

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Hi Gautier,

Yup, that's it! You just have to delete the document from the .reporting-\* index. Thanks for posting your solution!

Thanks,  
CJ

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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:** [December 29, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-management-reporting-where-are-stored-the-generated-pdf-reports-and-how-to-purge-these-documents/67641/4 "2016-12-29T16:32:47Z")

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