# Elastic curator version 7 is failing to delete indices
**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/elastic-curator-version-7-is-failing-to-delete-indices/14568
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
**Created:** [June 6, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/elastic-curator-version-7-is-failing-to-delete-indices/14568 "2023-06-06T09:04:37Z")
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### Author:  [@chirumanem](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/chirumanem)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/elastic-curator-version-7-is-failing-to-delete-indices/14568/1 "2023-06-06T09:04:37Z")
Hello all,
We are using elasticsearch curator version 5.8.4 with opensearch 1.2.4.
New Curator versions are being released. We could see in the curator release document that curator 7 will work with Elasticsearch 7.x and is functionally identical to 5.8.4. We uplifted curator version from 5.8.4 to 7.0.0.
We configured curator 7 actions to delete the logs older than 1 week
```auto
actions: |
1:
action: delete_indices
description: Remove logs older than 1 week
options:
disable_action: false
ignore_empty_list: true
filters:
- filtertype: age
source: name
direction: older
timestring: '%Y.%m.%d'
unit: days
unit_count: 7
```
**But curator 7 is failing to delete the logs and printing below error msg**
```auto
{"extra_data":{"curator":{"function":"get_client","linenum":1067,"name":"curator.utils"}},"message":"Unable to connect to Elasticsearch cluster. Error: The client noticed that the server is not Elasticsearch and we do not support this unknown product","metadata":{"container_name":"curator","namespace":"zmanrao","pod_name":"eric-data-search-engine-curator-28100537-6slmg"},"service_id":"eric-data-search-engine-curator","severity":"error","timestamp":"2023-06-06T06:17:06.512+00:00","version":"1.2.0"}
{"extra_data":{"curator":{"function":"get_client","linenum":1072,"name":"curator.utils"}},"message":"Curator cannot proceed. Exiting.","metadata":{"container_name":"curator","namespace":"zmanrao","pod_name":"eric-data-search-engine-curator-28100537-6slmg"},"service_id":"eric-data-search-engine-curator","severity":"critical","timestamp":"2023-06-06T06:17:06.512+00:00","version":"1.2.0"}
Ended with exit code 1.
```
Why curator is unable to connect to Elasticsearch cluster? Can some one explain the behavior?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@shdubsh](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/shdubsh)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/elastic-curator-version-7-is-failing-to-delete-indices/14568/2 "2023-06-06T15:08:45Z")
[Curator will not be compatible with OpenSearch.](https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/1617#issuecomment-1246272250)
[Index Management](https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/im-plugin/ism/index/) is Curator’s successor. For future support, this is probably the best option.
If you have to keep Curator, it would need to be forked and modified to support OpenSearch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/elastic-curator-version-7-is-failing-to-delete-indices/14568/3 "2023-08-05T15:09:03Z")
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