# Prevent selected indices from being created

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 16, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327 "2016-12-16T23:55:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![stecino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327/1 "2016-12-16T23:55:45Z")

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Is there a way, instead of disabling the index auto create, disable specific indices from being created.

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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:** [December 17, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327/2 "2016-12-17T00:01:02Z")

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Only by putting ACLs with Security.

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327/3 "2016-12-17T01:11:20Z")

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I believe index autocreate supports a pattern actually.

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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:** [December 17, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327/4 "2016-12-17T01:22:27Z")

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Ahh yeah, good point 🙂

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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:** [January 14, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-selected-indices-from-being-created/69327/5 "2017-01-14T01:22:46Z")

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