ElasticSearch - monitoring index management

23 Mar 2026

Now you have daily generated indexes like:

.monitoring-es-7-2026.03.23
.monitoring-es-7-2026.03.22
...
.monitoring-kibana-7-2026.03.23
.monitoring-kibana-7-2026.03.22

Probably, you want to store this data only for 2 days:

PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
 "xpack.monitoring.history.duration": "2d"
  }
}

Probably, you want to reduce index size and collect data every minute:

PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
 "xpack.monitoring.collection.interval": "60s"
  }
}