# Removing decommissionned nodes from Monitoring?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493 "2018-03-25T15:11:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@omeugdoj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omeugdoj)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493/1 "2018-03-25T15:11:23Z")
I have a few Logstash instances running, and I decommissioned one a few days ago. It will never go back online as I don't need it anymore.
But it still appears in Monitoring in Kibana via XPack. How can I remove it from Monitoring altogether?
Using 6.2.3
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493/2 "2018-03-25T17:09:30Z")
Once the time interval you are looking at in Kibana no longer contains data from the removed Logstash instance, it will no longer show up.
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### Author:  [@rcowart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcowart)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493/3 "2018-03-26T08:17:06Z")
You can simply delete the data from the monitoring indices. This can be done easily using [\_delete\_by\_query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html) in the Dev Tools Console.
I would recommend performing a query first, and when you are happy it is returning the data you want to delete, use that query with `_delete_by_query`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-decommissionned-nodes-from-monitoring/125493/4 "2018-04-23T08:17:23Z")
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