# \`.tasks\` index maintenance

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tasks-index-maintenance/381487
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tasks-index-maintenance/381487 "2025-09-01T13:14:58Z")
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### Author: ![taskstask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@taskstask](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taskstask)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tasks-index-maintenance/381487/1 "2025-09-01T13:14:59Z")

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Our `.tasks` index grows quite large (about 250GB a month), and I’m seeking an alternative to us manually deleting it once in a while.

I have two questions:

1. Is it still true that it’s always safe to delete this index? (According to [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-tasks-index-will-that-create-a-problem/170598/2) 2019 post, it’s safe.)
2. If you have a suggestion for a systematic solution, I’d love to hear it.  
Perhaps use ILM for this index, or submit a pull request which will make Elasticsearch take care of this index’s maintenance. (Is there already something similar in Elasticsearch’s code, so that I’ll be able to take inspiration from it?)

Thank you very much.