# No such indices in ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-such-indices-in-elasticsearch/381434>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-such-indices-in-elasticsearch/381434 "2025-08-29T04:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![levi19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@levi19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/levi19)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-such-indices-in-elasticsearch/381434/1 "2025-08-29T04:01:31Z")

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We are currently running an Elasticsearch & Kibana (8.14.3) cluster with:

- 3 master nodes and 6 data nodes

- Also, we are using Metricbeat ver 8.14.3 for monitoring the cluster ( we are enabled xpack.monitoring feature )

This morning, I received a warning “failed to delete indices” from the current master..  
I checked the log file (29-08) and found:

> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,00][INFO] [o.e.x.m.e.l.LocalExporter] [elastic-current-master] cleaning up [2] old indices
> 
> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,00][INFO] [o.e.x.m.e.l.LocalExporter] [elastic-current-master] cleaning up [2] old indices
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> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,00][INFO] [o.e.x.m.MetadataDeleteIndexService] [elastic-current-master] [.monitoring-es-7-2025-08-22]/Cj&U39slfcmlla] deleting index
> 
> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,00][INFO] [o.e.x.m.MetadataDeleteIndexService] [elastic-current-master] [.monitoring-kibana-7-2025-08-22]/bWgDTYdfdskmgap] deleting index
> 
> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,055][INFO] [o.e.x.m.l.LocalExporter] [elastic-current-master] [.monitoring-kibana-7-2025-08-22]/bWgDTYdfdskmgap] deleting index
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> [2025-08-29T10:00:00,055][INFO] [o.e.x.m.l.LocalExporter] [elastic-current-master] [.monitoring-es-7-2025-08-22]/bWgDTYdfdskmgap] deleting index  
> org.elasticsearch.index.IndexNotFoundException: no such index [.monitoring-kibana-7-2025-08-22]
> 
> [2025-08-29T10:30:00,055][INFO] [o.e.x.s.SnapshotRetentionTask] [elastic-current-master] starting SLM retention snapshot cleanup task

Also, I checked other log files from 26-08 to 28-08, there’s no message like that..

The log files from 26-08 to 28-08 show the same messages, except they don’t include the message ‘no such index’

I checked ILM policy =\> No policy for it ( only for .monitoring-\*-8..) since we are using ver 8  
I checked cronjob ( use sudo as well ) =\> No cron job for it  
I checked the index disk space =\> Still good

I assume that someone must have deleted it manually… I’m not sure

If anyone has better suggestions or experience handling this kind of issue, please let me know

Thanks in advance