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 data for shard

Unable to delete snapshot file

Unable to delete global metadata file

Failed to delete metadata for index

Failed to delete shard snapshot file

Failed to delete index blob during finalization

Failed to delete data blob during finalization

Failed to delete temp file

PreDelete listener failed

PostDelete listener failed

Failed to delete role-mapping

Failed to delete role