# Old Kibana indices **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 19, 2022, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-kibana-indices/294785 "2022-01-19T09:26:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexs1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@alexs1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexs1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-kibana-indices/294785/1 "2022-01-19T09:26:38Z")
Is that safe to delete old Kibana indices? there are lots of them. (They should probably cleaned up during an upgrade) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/f/6f75fed4f23f1fbaa5d0758af6c86dee778a3a94.png) ---
**Author:** ![baddack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baddack/32/100535_2.png) [@baddack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baddack)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-kibana-indices/294785/2 "2022-01-19T10:56:01Z")
Hello, I already had to delete some indices manually because of storage problems. By doing this you risk losing the data in these indices but if they are old and you don't need them anymore I don't see any problem to do this. Be sure of what you are deleting, if you do a query afterwards on the period concerned you may get a warning that some shards are missing. If I say something wrong, don't hesitate to correct me, I answer from my experience but it is quite possible that I make mistakes. Sincerly ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-kibana-indices/294785/3 "2022-02-16T10:56:54Z")
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