I have an elasticsearch cluster which ingests logs from Filebeat. I'm trying to limit the total size of the indices. If I delete the raw files that filebeat is ingesting, will the corresponding Elasticsearch indices be deleted as well? At the moment I'm manually using curl -XDELETE, which is not sus…

When filebeat logs are deleted, does this delete Elasticsearch indices?

Rios (Rios) February 16, 2024, 3:05am 5

Ah you mean delete processed files, then FB doesn't have that option like LS.
Check this.

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