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

you can use curl

 curl -X DELETE http://localhost:9200/filebeat-$(date +"%Y.%m.%d" -d "last Month")

this must to add this command to xxx.sh, and you can create crontab. crontab -e

00 00 * * * /etc/elasticsearch/xxx.sh

this cron will running everyday at 12pm and it will remove old log.