# Old indices wont delete
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-indices-wont-delete/120708
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-indices-wont-delete/120708 "2018-02-20T18:37:37Z")
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### Author:  [@shri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shri)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-indices-wont-delete/120708/1 "2018-02-20T18:37:37Z")
All, i'm trying to delete old indices but can't get it work. Please help me on this issue.
Error:
2018-02-19 21:34:40,977 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices"
2018-02-19 21:34:40,997 INFO Trying Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices": Delete indices older than 30 days (based on index name), for tomcat- prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an actionable list of indices (ignore\_empty\_list) and exit cleanly.
2018-02-19 21:34:41,138 INFO Skipping action "delete\_indices" due to empty list: \
2018-02-19 21:34:41,138 INFO Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices" completed.
2018-02-19 21:34:41,138 INFO Job completed.
My action file:
actions:
1:
action: delete\_indices
description: \>-
Delete indices older than 30 days (based on index name), for tomcat-
prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an
actionable list of indices (ignore\_empty\_list) and exit cleanly.
options:
ignore\_empty\_list: True
timeout\_override:
continue\_if\_exception: False
disable\_action: False
filters:
- filtertype: pattern
kind: prefix
value: logstash-
exclude:
- filtertype: age
source: name
direction: older
timestring: '%Y.%m.%d'
unit: days
unit\_count: 1
exclude: True
My conf.yml
client:
hosts:
- ${ELK\_HOST}
port: 9200
url\_prefix:
use\_ssl: False
certificate:
client\_cert:
client\_key:
ssl\_no\_validate: False
http\_auth:
timeout: 30
master\_only: False
logging:
loglevel: INFO
logfile:
logformat: default
blacklist: ['elasticsearch', 'urllib3']
When i do df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 68K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvda1 7.8G 6.2G 1.6G 80% /
/dev/xvdf 985G 572G 363G 62% /var/lib/docker
overlay 985G 572G 363G 62% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/9f13215541c68fb3db4a96e45667554c4958bcc50d2bd5dc228d73610742bfed/merged
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-indices-wont-delete/120708/2 "2018-02-27T01:42:00Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-indices-wont-delete/120708/3 "2018-03-27T01:42:20Z")
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