# Why is it merging my indexes?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-it-merging-my-indexes/125048
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-it-merging-my-indexes/125048 "2018-03-21T17:18:20Z")
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#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-it-merging-my-indexes/125048/5 "2018-03-22T12:31:29Z")

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> [@hgpit](#):
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> more than enough time for the 5 minute window

It's not a [5 minute window](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-the-schedule-every-five-minutes-in-logstash-5-0/66222/2), that cron schedule runs at 5 minutes past each hour.

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