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Origin
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editCurator was first called
clearESindices.py
. Its sole
function was to delete indices. It was almost immediately renamed to
logstash_index_cleaner.py
.
After a time it was briefly relocated under the
logstash repository as
expire_logs
, at which point it began to gain new functionality. Soon
thereafter, Jordan Sissel was hired by Elastic (then still Elasticsearch), as
was the original author of Curator. Not long after that it became Elasticsearch
Curator and is now hosted at https://github.com/elastic/curator
Curator now performs many operations on your Elasticsearch indices, from delete to snapshot to shard allocation routing.