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Delete old logstash indices from Elasticsearch

Project description

Delete logstash indexes older than n days from ElasticSearch.

$ logstash-index-cleaner -h
usage: logstash-index-cleaner [-h] [-v] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
                              [-t TIMEOUT] [-p PREFIX] [-s SEPARATOR]
                              [-H HOURS_TO_KEEP] [-d DAYS_TO_KEEP] [-n]

Delete old logstash indices from Elasticsearch.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --host HOST           Elasticsearch host.
  --port PORT           Elasticsearch port
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        Elasticsearch timeout
  -p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
                        Prefix for the indices. Indices that do not have this
                        prefix are skipped.
  -s SEPARATOR, --separator SEPARATOR
                        Time unit separator
  -H HOURS_TO_KEEP, --hours-to-keep HOURS_TO_KEEP
                        Number of hours to keep.
  -d DAYS_TO_KEEP, --days-to-keep DAYS_TO_KEEP
                        Number of days to keep.
  -n, --dry-run         If true, does not perform any changes to the
                        Elasticsearch indices.

Project history

This is a fork of https://github.com/crashdump/logstash-elasticsearch-scripts.

Since ElasticSearch 0.90 all fields are compressed, and some benchmarks show that nothing improves optimizing those already compressed indices. That’s why this fork does not include the original logstash_index_optimize.py

Optimizations references:

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