Elasticsearch DELETE

By Opster Team

Updated: Mar 21, 2023

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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.

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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
Delete repository

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