---
mapped_pages:
  - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/ex_close.html
navigation_title: close
---

# Close indices using {{es}} Curator [ex_close]

```yaml
---
# Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value.  None will be a string,
# not a Python "NoneType"
#
# Also remember that all examples have 'disable_action' set to True.  If you
# want to use this action as a template, be sure to set this to False after
# copying it.
actions:
  1:
    action: close
    description: >-
      Close indices older than 30 days (based on index name), for logstash-
      prefixed indices.
    options:
      skip_flush: False
      delete_aliases: False
      ignore_sync_failures: True
      disable_action: True
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: logstash-
    - filtertype: age
      source: name
      direction: older
      timestring: '%Y.%m.%d'
      unit: days
      unit_count: 30
```

