# Removing the old reports

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021 "2020-01-14T17:10:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![emnioj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emnioj/32/60790_2.png) [@emnioj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emnioj)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021/1 "2020-01-14T17:10:35Z")

</div>

Hi Team,

i have created so many reports and now would like to delete the old reports.  
Since i can not find any tab existing to deleting the old reports.

Is there any way we could delete the reports only?

all these are stored in .kibana index by default.  
would it possible to delete report details part from .kibana index.

kibana 7 version is being used.

regards.  
Manish

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021/2 "2020-02-05T02:00:06Z")

</div>

Hi  
Currently there is an open issue tracking this: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/26725](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/26725)

The safest way to delete Reports from ES directly is:

```auto
POST /.reporting-<yyyy.mm.dd>/_delete_by_query
{ "query": { "match_all": {} } }

```

That deletes the documents, but not the index completely, making the mappings still correct for the index. That's the safe thing to do if you need to delete recent reports.

Thanks  
Rashmi

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![emnioj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emnioj/32/60790_2.png) [@emnioj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emnioj)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021/3 "2020-02-06T16:58:48Z")

</div>

Thanks Rashmi .it helps . Awesome team.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-the-old-reports/215021/4 "2020-03-05T16:59:03Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.