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

Delete model model aliases

DeleteByQuery for indices timed out jobId String join

Running delete by query on jobId String join

%s %s failed to delete temporary files snapshot upgrade

JobId Failed to delete temporary files

%s failed to delete snapshot %s for retention

Deleting results after deleteAfter

Failed to delete some blobs during snapshot delete

Failed to delete shutdown for node

Failed to delete

Failures and conflicts encountered while running DeleteByQuery for stats

Failures and conflicts encountered while running DeleteByQuery for state