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I have an Index and data keep on coming on daily basis , my requirement is to delete old data from this index to make more disk space . @bob-bza, Elasticsearch Curator is the way to automatically delete your older indices. It can use the This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. I have an Index and data keep on coming on daily basis , my requirement is to delete old data from this index to make more disk space .The best option is to use time based indices, then you can simply delete the index with Without that you need to use delete-by-query, which is expensive.Say I create monthly time-based indices, and delete the last month's index using curator. All, I’m trying to delete old indices, but I can’t get it working. Deleting documents from big shards (regardless of whether via TTL or other method of deleting documents) is expensive. How to delete elasticsearch data which is older than 30 days from an Index. My requirement is to delete old data from this single index to make more disk space . I have curator version 5.1 installed. My requirement is to delete old data from this single index to make more disk space .You can use the delete by query API (which is provided via a plugin as of ES 2.0), but you really really shouldn't.

Deleting Data from Elasticsearch. If you don’t want to delete old indices then simply increase your disk space of Elasticsearch cluster.

Is there some way or architecting that whenever my index switches I will atleast have 7 days worth of data to start with.One way I am assuming could be duplicating data and start writing to both indices before 7 days the current index is about to expire.Create daily indices and every day drop the index which has aged beyond 30 days.Curator does not have to use a time stamp in the index name. See the delete_indices action documentation, and the example for the same action. For example, if an index name is my-logs-2014.03.02, the index is deleted. New replies are no longer allowed. actually i am on ES 1.7.1.I don't think Curator supports the delete by query API. Hi, How to delete elasticsearch data which is older than 30 days from an Index. actions: 1: action: delete_indices description: >- Delete indices older than 45 days (based on index name), for logstash- prefixed indices.

Taking our basic syntax as seen above, we need to use curl and send the DELETE HTTP verb, using the -XDELETE option: $

Delete a Single Document. Hi Experts, I have one static Index(I mean I do not create index every day) , but data is keep on coming on daily basis . With the basic REST API syntax out of the way, we can explore how to perform specific actions like deleting data. For time-series data the best option is to use time-series indexes.So Curator is not an option for me ? please let me kno… If it does you should be okay.You are much better off moving to time based indices.Possible but also a bad idea (and deprecated since ES 2.0). $ pip install Elasticsearch-curator This is very simple to do, follow mention steps: Step 1: Install Curator and configure it to delete indices x days old with a specific pattern.

The following sample code uses Curator and the official Python Elasticsearch client to delete any index whose name contains a time stamp indicating that the data is more than 30 days old.

I have one static Index(I mean I do not create index every day) , but data is keep on coming on daily basis . But when my index will switch to the latest month, I will not have any data on the first day. The rest of the documentation should help with understanding. If you # want to use this action as a template, be sure to set this to False after # copying it. Steps to delete old data/indices from Elasticsearch . I found info stating to use the following command curator --host localhost delete indices --older-than … Hello, How can i delete the old data from an index, if i create an index everyday i am facing some problems wrt shards performance , so i have only one index and i would like to delete old data.