# Older data deletion in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651 "2019-06-20T10:19:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Tania\_Saez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tania_saez/32/47626_2.png) [@Tania\_Saez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tania_Saez)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/1 "2019-06-20T10:19:47Z")

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Hello,

I created an index with their fields in kibana and I am ingesting logs to them. In coming days I will have a lot of logs, how can i do to deleted the older 7 days logs as an automatical task with version 7.x ?

Thanks for the support,  
Tania

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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:** [June 20, 2019, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/2 "2019-06-20T10:24:39Z")

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Are you using a single index or time based ones?

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**Author:** ![Tania\_Saez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tania_saez/32/47626_2.png) [@Tania\_Saez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tania_Saez)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/3 "2019-06-20T11:47:53Z")

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Here my index configuration based on time series data:

{  
"mapping": {  
"properties": {  
"@timestamp": {  
"type": "date"  
},  
"@version": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"code\_status": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"dial\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"dns\_lookup\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"endpoint": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"host": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"message": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"path": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
},  
"receive\_response\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"send\_body\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"send\_headers\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"total\_response\_time": {  
"type": "float"  
},  
"wait\_for\_response\_ms": {  
"type": "float"  
}  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![Tania\_Saez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tania_saez/32/47626_2.png) [@Tania\_Saez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tania_Saez)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/4 "2019-06-20T11:50:57Z")

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It is based on timestamp, so reading this field it could be cleaned up the old data

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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:** [June 20, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/5 "2019-06-20T20:42:51Z")

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So your indices have a timestamp in their name as well?

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**Author:** ![Tania\_Saez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tania_saez/32/47626_2.png) [@Tania\_Saez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tania_Saez)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/6 "2019-06-21T06:32:20Z")

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i am ingesting the data by csv, the timestamp is created automatically with logstash

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**Author:** ![Tania\_Saez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tania_saez/32/47626_2.png) [@Tania\_Saez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tania_Saez)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/7 "2019-07-02T09:52:23Z")

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Hello,

Finally is it possible to afford with curator 5.7? No sure if it will delete all the index data, i just want to keep the more recent data.

Best regars,

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/older-data-deletion-in-elasticsearch/186651/8 "2019-07-30T09:52:33Z")

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