# Odd indices created automatically - what's happening?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-whats-happening/38709>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-whats-happening/38709 "2016-01-08T09:31:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hpniemitube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce7236/32.png) [@hpniemitube](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hpniemitube)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-whats-happening/38709/1 "2016-01-08T09:31:42Z")

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Hi,

Just started to use ES 2.1.1. I have several servers with a logstash 1.5.6-1. Now I noticed, that in addition to the correct daily index, that is created automatically:

ylefi\_drupalsv-2016.01.08 5 2 576213 0 1.1gb 390mb

... there is plenty of odd indices like:

green open ylefi\_drupalsv-2016.12.18 5 2 1 0 40.5kb 13.5kb  
green open ylefi\_drupalsv-2016.12.19 5 2 2 0 78.4kb 26.1kb  
green open ylefi\_drupalsv-2016.12.13 5 2 2 0 75.6kb 25.2kb  
green open ylefi\_drupalsv-2016.11.20 5 2 1 0 39.5kb 13.1kb

Those odd indices contain just something like this:

{"\_scroll\_id":"c2Nhbjs1OzY2MzpUN3JqaTdDZlFIS3NjR0E5T0xHSnZBOzI2Njk2Mjp2WFU3aG96RlRtT2lYSU9xNGRMRzV3OzI2Njc3MjpWTXIzU3dkSlNydTNucXZGU2tYbmV3OzY1ODppRU5QeEhhcFQ0ZUVVUzZYNEJGSDRBOzY3MzpJQ0NBb2p6UFJCcWZscnZsYnJyRXF3OzE7dG90YWxfaGl0czoxOw==","took":2,"timed\_out":false,"\_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":1,"max\_score":0.0,"hits":[]}}

So who is creating those and why and how to stop it? If I delete those, more is coming.

Thanks.

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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:** [January 10, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-whats-happening/38709/2 "2016-01-10T00:46:53Z")

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I'll close this as you have this other thread already established - [Odd indices created automatically - what is happening?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-what-is-happening/38711)

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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:** [January 10, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-indices-created-automatically-whats-happening/38709/3 "2016-01-10T00:46:56Z")

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Closed on January 10, 2016, 12:46am UTC