# Not sure where my indexes are being deleted

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180 "2021-10-20T10:00:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![davman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@davman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180/1 "2021-10-20T10:00:06Z")

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Hey there,  
I inherited a system form a previous admin.  
I want to see the policy assigned to a certain index pattern for deletion.  
I know they are being deleted I just cant seem to tie the pattern to an ILM.

Can someone guide me?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180/2 "2021-10-20T23:58:18Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

`GET _ilm/policy` will show you everything there is, there's no direct endpoint to otherwise list this unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180/3 "2021-10-21T02:50:32Z")

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If you have Kibana you can go to Stack Management \> Index Lifecycle policies, it will show all the policies you have and you can see all the index that are linked to each policy.

You can also go to Stack Management \> Index Management and in the Lifecycle Status drop down menu, you can choose _Managed_ to show all the index that has an Index Lifecycle Policy.

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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 18, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-sure-where-my-indexes-are-being-deleted/287180/4 "2021-11-18T02:51:22Z")

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