# Xpack.monitoring.history.duration
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732 "2018-02-20T22:07:16Z")
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### Author:  [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732/1 "2018-02-20T22:07:16Z")
Hi,
I am using ES 5.2.2 with X-Pack 5.2.2. I am having main cluster and monitoring cluster where I export monitoring data from main cluster. Refer release docs
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-settings.html)
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xpack.monitoring.history.duration
Sets the retention duration beyond which the indices created by a Monitoring exporter will be automatically deleted. Defaults to 7d (7 days).
This setting has a minimum value of 1d (1 day) to ensure that something is being monitored, and it cannot be disabled.
Important
This setting currently only impacts local-type exporters. Indices created using the http exporter will not be deleted automatically.
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I am using Default setting, I am seeing its keeping .monitoring Indices only for 7 days i.e its deleting older index. Is this expected.
Thanks,
Amit.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732/2 "2018-02-20T22:09:01Z")
> [@eramitsinha](#):
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> I am using Default setting, I am seeing its keeping .monitoring Indices only for 7 days i.e its deleting older index. Is this expected.
The default is 7 days, so after that things will be removed. This is expected.
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### Author:  [@eramitsinha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eramitsinha)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732/3 "2018-02-20T22:09:52Z")
Thank you Mark. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-monitoring-history-duration/120732/4 "2018-03-20T22:09:55Z")
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