# Monitoring indexes size is increasing **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [October 6, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indexes-size-is-increasing/315935 "2022-10-06T07:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harijld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc348/32.png) [@harijld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harijld)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indexes-size-is-increasing/315935/1 "2022-10-06T07:05:59Z")
HI Team, I am facing disk slowness issue in our non prod environment when we process some huge data. when i verified indexes. .monitoring index is also increasing continuously whenever we insert data into actual index. Is there any way we can restrict these indexes or how to control these indexes ? .monitoring-es-7 .monitoring-kibana-7 Thanks Hari ---
**Author:** ![matschaffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matschaffer/32/95396_2.png) [@matschaffer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matschaffer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indexes-size-is-increasing/315935/2 "2022-10-12T02:52:19Z")
Hi Hari! The main way to control size is to clean up older data. You can modify the `.monitoring-8-ilm-policy` Index Lifecycle Policy to change retention behavior. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indexes-size-is-increasing/315935/3 "2022-11-09T02:52:54Z")
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