# Xpack.monitoring.history.duration doesn't work
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622 "2017-06-07T19:44:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@suanmeiguo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suanmeiguo)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622/1 "2017-06-07T19:44:33Z")
I have following settings in my `elasticsearch.yml` file. What I need is to keep a 90 days history of monitoring index data so I can look back and compare.
```auto
# xpack settings
xpack.monitoring.history.duration: 90d
xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_local:
type: local
use_ingest: false
index.name.time_format: YYYY.MM
```
However, at the beginning of each month, the previous month monitoring index is still got deleted automatically. The index name is `.monitoring-kibana-2-2017.05` and `.monitoring-es-2-2017.05` for example. Hence I lost my monitoring data for last month.
Is there any config I did wrong? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622/2 "2017-06-07T20:10:40Z")
Hi @suanmeiguo,
What is your licensing type? With the basic license, we will delete any index after 7 days regardless of the setting.
Let us know,
Chris
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### Author:  [@suanmeiguo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suanmeiguo)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622/3 "2017-06-07T22:47:41Z")
Ah that's it. Thank you that's good to know!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration-doesnt-work/88622/4 "2017-07-05T22:47:43Z")
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