Elasticsearch DELETE API - Explanation & Examples

By Opster Team

Updated: Jan 28, 2024

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Overview

DELETE is an Elasticsearch API which removes a document from a specific index. This API requires an index name and _id document to delete the document.

Delete a document

DELETE /my_index/_doc/1

Notes

A delete request throws 404 error code if the document does not already exist in the index.
If you want to delete a set of documents that matches a query, you need to use delete by query API.

Related log errors to this ES concept

Failed to delete dangling indices state for index %s

Failed to delete temp file %s

PreDelete listener listener failed

PostDelete listener listener failed

Failed to delete temporary APM config file reason

Could not delete old chunks for geoip database name

Failed to delete shutdown for node request getNodeId

Failed to delete file

Failed to delete role-mapping request getName

Failed to delete role request name

DeleteByQuery for stats timed out

Cancelling reset task because delete was requested