# Metricbeat hidden indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-hidden-indexes/287065>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-hidden-indexes/287065 "2021-10-19T09:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![bm-ai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@bm-ai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bm-ai)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-hidden-indexes/287065/1 "2021-10-19T09:14:10Z")

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Hi,

I've been using ES and Metricbeat for a while now and I've noticed that my ES nodes capacity is getting full pretty fast even though I have ILM enabled on all Metricbeats indexes. I can see many hidden indexes from Metricbeat that looks like  
".monitoring-es-7-mb-2021.10.18"  
which takes a lot of storage, many GB.  
Is there a way to attach ILM to those indexes or even disable them completely?

Thanks!

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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 16, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-hidden-indexes/287065/2 "2021-11-16T11:14:34Z")

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