# Removing strangely named indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575 "2018-02-26T23:18:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575/1 "2018-02-26T23:18:08Z")

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Hello,

After wrongly confguring logstash I ended up with indices with the following format  
`%{[@file[beat]}-2017.11.30` is there a way that I can remove them?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575/2 "2018-02-27T13:07:45Z")

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Hey,

you can use the [delete index API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/indices-delete-index.html). Do you run in to issues just trying to delete that index?

--Alex

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**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575/3 "2018-02-27T13:09:34Z")

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I have tried that both via kibana dev tools also via curl request but they do not get deleted.

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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:** [March 27, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-strangely-named-indexes/121575/4 "2018-03-27T13:09:40Z")

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