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 file during snapshot cleanup

Failed to delete expired or invalidated api keys

Failed to delete expired tokens

Failed to delete role from the index

DeleteByQuery for state timed out

Failed to delete indices

Failed to delete blob in bucket

Failed to delete unassigned index reason

Failed to delete index

Failed to delete index on disk

Failed to delete snapshot

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