# Removing .marvel indices from elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [September 2, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488 "2015-09-02T05:53:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/1 "2015-09-02T05:53:10Z")

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Hi,

I have removed marvel plugin from all of my ES Nodes using `bin/plugin --remove marvel`. Doing `bin/plugin --list` is also not showing the marvel plugin. But I am still seeing indices of type `.marvel-2015.09.02` indices. Can you let me know how to get rid of marvel indices 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:** [September 2, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/2 "2015-09-02T06:16:33Z")

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`curl -XDELETE host:9200/.marvel-*` will do it.

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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/3 "2015-09-02T08:41:08Z")

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My question was not clear .

I meant even after removing marvel plug-in & deleting all `.marvel` indices it is still creating today's index.

```
curl -XDELETE es-client:9200/.marvel-*
```

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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:** [September 2, 2015, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/4 "2015-09-02T08:45:08Z")

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Then you have marvel installed somewhere still.

Check `_cat/plugins` and make sure you restarted the node(s) after removing the plugin.

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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/5 "2015-09-03T06:30:35Z")

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Ohk I just removed the `bin/plugin --remove marvel` as mentioned [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-plugins.html#_removing_plugins). I did not restart the node. I think the page should be updated to add this restarting of node information to help newbies.

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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:** [September 3, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/6 "2015-09-03T06:50:04Z")

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Fair point, I'll arrange to get this fixed 🙂

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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:** [September 3, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/7 "2015-09-03T06:53:00Z")

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[https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/13301](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/13301) 😃

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**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/8 "2015-09-03T07:51:51Z")

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Thanks @warkolm.

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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 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-marvel-indices-from-elasticsearch/28488/9 "2017-07-06T13:47:37Z")

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