I'm having a similar issue as this topic where old monitoring indices aren't being deleted: [image] Deleting Old Monitoring Indices Elasticsearch Hi crickes, The automatic deletion of old monitoring indices is available only for exporters of type local and the retention …

Okay I just found another piece of the puzzle. For some reason we are getting a license expired (I'm assuming some x-pack thing?) in the environment and not on the others. But a key line of the license expired elasticsearch logs output is: The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older …

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Old .monitoring indices aren't being deleted

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oblakeerickson (Blake Erickson) August 21, 2018, 5:58pm 3

I'm pretty sure with a basic license you can't configure these settings anyways?

In our elasticsearch.yml we don't have any monitoring related settings set.

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