# Curator for opensearch
**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/curator-for-opensearch/12965
**Category:** OpenSearch
**Tags:** troubleshoot
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/curator-for-opensearch/12965 "2023-03-06T11:08:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@taltsafrir](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/taltsafrir)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/curator-for-opensearch/12965/1 "2023-03-06T11:08:14Z")
hi! im running curator for opensearch with ssl enabled
I dont get any errors/warnings in my logs
but at the end I’m not seeing the indices deleting
my configuration:
client:
hosts:
- [https://opensearch-data-1](https://opensearch-data-1)
port: 9200
url\_prefix:
use\_ssl: True
certificate:
client\_cert: certs/node.pem
client\_key: certs/node-key.pem
aws\_key:
aws\_secret\_key:
aws\_region:
ssl\_no\_validate: False
http\_auth: admin:admin
username: admin
password: admin
timeout: 30
master\_only: False
logging:
loglevel: DEBUG
logfile: /var/log/curator/curator.log
logformat: default
blacklist: [‘elasticsearch’, ‘urllib3’]
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### Author:  [@radu.gheorghe](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/radu.gheorghe)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/curator-for-opensearch/12965/2 "2023-03-06T13:57:23Z")
Hi. I’m not sure Curator will work for OpenSearch, but did you try [ISM](https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/im-plugin/ism/index/) instead?
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### Author:  [@taltsafrir](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/taltsafrir)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/curator-for-opensearch/12965/3 "2023-03-06T20:44:18Z")
yes, I created a deleting policy and it was succeeded but didn’t really delete the index
{
“policy\_id”: “delete\_policy\_specific”,
“description”: “Delete Indices after 15 days.”,
“last\_updated\_time”: 1678137953974,
“schema\_version”: 17,
“error\_notification”: null,
“default\_state”: “default”,
“states”: [
{
“name”: “default”,
“actions”: ,
“transitions”: [
{
“state\_name”: “delete”,
“conditions”: {
“min\_index\_age”: “15d”
}
}
]
},
{
“name”: “delete”,
“actions”: [
{
“retry”: {
“count”: 3,
“backoff”: “exponential”,
“delay”: “1m”
},
“delete”: {}
}
],
“transitions”:
}
],
“ism\_template”: [
{
“index\_patterns”: [
“reports-230228”
],
“priority”: 1,
“last\_updated\_time”: 1678137723087
}
]
}