Logstash index automatically delete when new is created

[dinesh2 (Dinesh)]

I want to create a script that previous day index got deleted when new index created in logstash config file.

Index1: 2018-01-01
Index2: 2018-01-02
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IndexN:

Regards,
Dinesh D

[balumurari1]

Instead of deleting index daily, create an index with unique id, so that you can update your data daily from the same index. Deleting index is not a good approach.

Why not just use a custom _id for each document, so that the next time it gets sent to Elasticsearch it just overwrites the existing one?

[dinesh2 (Dinesh)]

Hi Balumurari,

Actually the index created based on the current date and my question is to keep only 7 days indices and past indices to be deleted.
And for this week indices should be deleted automatically when new week index is created.

Please suggest.

Regards,
Dinesh D

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

For now, use Elasticsearch Curator.