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…

Aha - this is great, thank you. How about the question regarding deletion of the files which are being indexed?

Deleting files off a device running Filebeat will not delete anything out of elasticsearch

Great, thanks to you both for your help!

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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