# What are logstash indicies starting with 00?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841 "2019-05-20T13:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![bauermalzwei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@bauermalzwei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bauermalzwei)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841/1 "2019-05-20T13:53:04Z")

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Hi there,

I've experimented with logstash last month and got it working fine. However, today when trying to set up curator I noticed that along with the regular indicies "logstash-2019.05.20" for some days logstash seems to have created indicies along the pattern of "logstash-0019.05.20". I stumbled across it as curator wants to delete them.

I couldn't find any information and was wondering what these indicies are?

Could someone shed some light onto this?

Thanks!  
Chris

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**Author:** ![pastechecker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/0ea827/32.png) [@pastechecker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pastechecker)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841/2 "2019-05-20T14:15:30Z")

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What will you see:

GET \_cat/indices ?  
Is the index name with .logstash or logstash?  
Because the data with . before is the monitoring/logging stuff.

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**Author:** ![bauermalzwei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@bauermalzwei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bauermalzwei)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841/3 "2019-05-20T14:35:05Z")

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The indicies were not with "." in front. They looked like regular logstash indicies which is why I thought it is normal but just couldnt find any information about it. Btw, logstash and ES 5.6

Unfortunately the indices are now gone due to curator (forgot the dry-run setting... ☹ )

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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:** [June 17, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-logstash-indicies-starting-with-00/181841/4 "2019-06-17T14:35:07Z")

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