Removing old indices in elasticsearch

Question

I have the many of my logs indexed in logstash-Year-Week format. That is if i want to delete indices older than a few weeks, how can I achieve that in elasticsearch. Is ther

Answer 1

Take a look at Curator, a tool developed specially for this kind of use case.

A sample command, for the documentation:

curator --host 10.0.0.2 delete indices --older-than 30 --time-unit days \
   --timestring '%Y.%m.%d'