# Manually delete old logs/indices in ELK 7.3.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 14, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981 "2020-04-14T18:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohamed.samir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@mohamed.samir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohamed.samir)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/1 "2020-04-14T18:55:23Z")
please, how to delete old logs/indices or in ELK 7.3 before i used to use curl -GET [http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices) to see old indices and delete it manually using curl -XDELETE [http://localhost:9200/logstash-2020.01.\*](http://localhost:9200/logstash-2020.01.*) but now, when i use curl -GET [http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices) i got a bulk of one row data (all size 120G) like this one yellow open logstash 4KcX1ncGRgSwIL9Ow0yE\_g 1 1 113013399 0 120.6gb 120.6gb any idea how to delete old logs manually please, like before? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/2 "2020-04-21T14:08:58Z")
So you have only one index now? Instead of using daily indices? That's it? If you want to remove **ALL** logs, run ``` DELETE logstash ``` It will remove the entire index. If you want to delete data within this index, you probably have to use delete by query API. But if you end up removing a lot of data, like 50% of the data, it could be better to reindex the old data in a new index instead then drop the old index as I mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![mohamed.samir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@mohamed.samir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohamed.samir)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/3 "2020-04-21T15:29:04Z")
hello David, thanks a lot for your kind reply first how to reindex old data? or how to configure my ELK to maintain daily indices as before? best regards, ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/4 "2020-04-21T17:32:12Z")
You use the reindex API. For logstash, you probably changed the elasticsearch output default configuration. Check it. ---
**Author:** ![mohamed.samir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@mohamed.samir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohamed.samir)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/5 "2020-04-25T22:03:25Z")
hi dadoonet please, i may delete the current big log file, no problem but in future, how can i rotate this indices as before (every day)? and what do you mean of "elasticsearch output default configuration"? how can i find such settings? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/6 "2020-04-26T06:46:12Z")
You said you have logstash. Share the logstash pipeline file. I believe it's named `logstash.conf` or something like that. It's often stored in the logstash directory. If you still don't know where it is, tell me how do you exactly start logstash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-delete-old-logs-indices-in-elk-7-3-0/227981/7 "2020-05-24T06:46:13Z")
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