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 shard after failed engine

Failed to delete shard after failed startup

Failed to delete shard after ignore recovery

Dangling index exists on local file system but not in cluster metadata scheduling to delete in auto import to cluster state

Delete warmer

Failed to delete river on stop

Cannot delete indices that are being snapshotted

Failed to delete unused index after deleting its last shard shardId

Cannot delete snapshot from a readonly repository

Failed to delete snapshots

Cannot delete test data at

Failed to delete pid file