# When is the lifepolicy of DELETE phase is executed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [October 26, 2021, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680 "2021-10-26T10:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MinwooKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MinwooKim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MinwooKim)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/1 "2021-10-26T10:40:46Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/0/80c0d2d24519ca2ca81d398f828597de5c47cac4.png) As shown above, the hot phase with 30 day rollover was already in active state, thus I have indexes with indexname-2021.05.10-1 indexname-2021.05.16-000002 indexname-2021.06.15-000003 indexname-2021.07.10-000004 indexname-2021.08.09-000005 indexname-2021.09.08-000006 indexname-2021.10.08-000007 Today, I added a delete phase with 60 days and saved, however, none of the indexes were deleted. Is there anyway to add a policy to automatically delete indexes that have names before August? ---
**Author:** ![d.silwon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/d.silwon/32/65853_2.png) [@d.silwon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/d.silwon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/2 "2021-10-26T12:10:14Z")
Hi @MinwooKim, Do you have created template for this indexes? If no please do it. Do you assigned existing indexes to ILM policy? if no please do it. It should solved you problems. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/3 "2021-10-26T21:45:10Z")
What version are you on? There was a bug in earlier 7.X releases that didn't actually add a delete action to the policy, so make sure you are on 7.15. ---
**Author:** ![MinwooKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MinwooKim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MinwooKim)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/4 "2021-10-27T01:01:58Z")
unfortunately, yes both were already done,, as my question, but if it did work, does the indexes before 60days get deleted immidiately? ---
**Author:** ![MinwooKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MinwooKim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MinwooKim)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/5 "2021-10-27T01:03:02Z")
I have a question, I am using the basic license based on 7.4.2 does 7.15. upgrades cost money? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/6 "2021-10-27T01:31:14Z")
7.4 is [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) so you should definitely upgrade. The default distro of 7.15 is still free 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-is-the-lifepolicy-of-delete-phase-is-executed/287680/7 "2021-11-24T01:32:05Z")
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