# Kibana defualt indexes usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 29, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985 "2020-11-29T13:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![azxqw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@azxqw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azxqw)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985/1 "2020-11-29T13:33:33Z")

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Hi,  
How do I determine which of my .Kibana indexes are being used by the stack?  
i have quite a few of those indexes, some of which are probably not benig used and are interfering with my logstash and elasticsearch update

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985/2 "2020-11-30T10:26:02Z")

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If you are referring to `.kibana_1`, `.kibana_2` and so on, those are leftovers from migrating Kibana from version to version. You can delete those except for the one with the highest number (and `.kibana` itself, that's just an alias), see the documentation here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/upgrade-migrations.html#upgrade-migrations-old-indices](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/upgrade-migrations.html#upgrade-migrations-old-indices)

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985/3 "2020-11-30T10:26:48Z")

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Only the last .kibana\_x index is used normally. You can check that by running:  
`GET /_alias/.kibana` in the Console. That should give you the index name that is used by Kibana.

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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 28, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defualt-indexes-usage/256985/4 "2020-12-28T10:27:10Z")

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