# Kibana forcemerge time out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870 "2017-10-05T16:11:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![yuanhui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@yuanhui](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuanhui)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870/1 "2017-10-05T16:11:45Z")

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I try to delete some old data to clean storage space, I use "POST /index/\_forcemerge?only\_expunge\_deletes=true" in Kibana after a delete-by-query, but I get a 502 time out error everytime, what is wrong here?

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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:** [October 6, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870/2 "2017-10-06T01:26:40Z")

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What version of things are you running?

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**Author:** ![yuanhui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@yuanhui](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuanhui)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870/3 "2017-10-06T22:22:52Z")

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5.5.2

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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:** [October 6, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870/4 "2017-10-06T22:36:25Z")

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Is there anything in the Elasticsearch logs at the time you ran 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:** [November 3, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-forcemerge-time-out/102870/5 "2017-11-03T22:36:26Z")

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