https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114023#M23840 <P>Yes, the data would be completely erased. The disk space would become available.</P> <P>Data that was being sent to that index would not be indexed. There is no fall-back or default. If inputs.conf references an index that doesn't exist, the data is simply not indexed.</P> <P>Reports and dashboards that referred to that index would no longer work.</P> Tue, 19 May 2015 18:59:50 GMT lguinn2 2015-05-19T18:59:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114022#M23839 <P>Hi</P> <P>I have multiple index. If I delete an index, would the data in it would be erase completely from Splunk? </P> Tue, 19 May 2015 16:15:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114022#M23839 edrivera3 2015-05-19T16:15:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114023#M23840 <P>Yes, the data would be completely erased. The disk space would become available.</P> <P>Data that was being sent to that index would not be indexed. There is no fall-back or default. If inputs.conf references an index that doesn't exist, the data is simply not indexed.</P> <P>Reports and dashboards that referred to that index would no longer work.</P> Tue, 19 May 2015 18:59:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114023#M23840 lguinn2 2015-05-19T18:59:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114024#M23841 <P>Think of an index as a folder. If you delete a folder then the data within that folder is gone too </P> Tue, 19 May 2015 19:31:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-happen-when-an-index-is-deleted/m-p/114024#M23841 skoelpin 2015-05-19T19:31:22Z