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

Failures and conflicts encountered while running DeleteByQuery on indices

Failed to delete temporary files

Failed to delete dangling indices state for index

Failed to delete snapshot for retention

Failed to delete old index-N blobs during finalization

Snapshot delete issued but the request was not acknowledged

Failures and conflicts encountered while runnint DeleteByQuery for state

%s failed to delete unassigned index reason %s

%s failed to delete index

Failed to run ready delete operations

%s Failed to delete some blobs during snapshot delete

Failed to query node failure nodeId