Elasticsearch DELETE

Opster Team

Last updated: Oct 5, 2021

| 1 min read

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In addition to reading about Elasticsearch DELETE API, we recommend you run the Elasticsearch Health Check-Up. It will detect issues and improve your Elasticsearch performance by analyzing your shard sizes, threadpools, memory, snapshots, disk watermarks and more.

The Elasticsearch Check-Up is free and requires no installation.

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 index
Failed to delete expired or invalidated api keys
Halted deletion of expired ML data until next invocation
Error when trying to query fileLength
Tried to query fileLength but file is gone
No deletion job listeners could be found
Delete repository
Unable to execute the graph query
Deleting expired data
Deleted forecasts from job
Running DBQ on
Failed to delete expired tokens

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