# Monitoring history duration not getting updated elastic search 6.8.1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-history-duration-not-getting-updated-elastic-search-6-8-1/235465
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 3, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-history-duration-not-getting-updated-elastic-search-6-8-1/235465 "2020-06-03T05:10:22Z")
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### Author:  [@pawanpanjwani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pawanpanjwani)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-history-duration-not-getting-updated-elastic-search-6-8-1/235465/1 "2020-06-03T05:10:23Z")
Hi, I have been trying to update the monitoring indices duration from default of 7 days to 1 day.
I have tried updating the cluster settings and have also tried updating the elasticsearch.yml.
However the change is not taking effect, and the monitoring indices older than 1 day are not getting deleted. can someone please help me understand why are older indices not getting deleted
Following is the addition that I did to elasticsearch.yml
`xpack.monitoring.history.duration: 1d `
Also tried updating the cluster settings by hitting the following endpoint
```auto
PUT _cluster/settings
{
"persistent": {
"xpack.monitoring.history.duration":"1d"
}
}
```
After updating these settings I restarted the elastic search cluster using
`sudo service elasticsearch restart`
However even after doing these changes the settings are not getting updated. version of elasticsearch that i have been using is 6.8.1
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-history-duration-not-getting-updated-elastic-search-6-8-1/235465/2 "2020-07-01T05:10:32Z")
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