# Remove old 7.x Kibana indices after upgrade to 8.9

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-old-7-x-kibana-indices-after-upgrade-to-8-9/341212>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-old-7-x-kibana-indices-after-upgrade-to-8-9/341212 "2023-08-21T08:21:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![chouben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@chouben](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chouben)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-old-7-x-kibana-indices-after-upgrade-to-8-9/341212/3 "2023-08-29T06:36:27Z")

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Answer:

> [@Remove 7.x indices after upgrade to 8.x](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-7-x-indices-after-upgrade-to-8-x/341000/4):
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> I believe you can start by removing everything which is like \*-7.\*.\*-\* but please check what are those indices first. I don't have a better answer yet. Indices which don't have an exact version number in it should be kept as is IMO.

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