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

An error occurred while searching forecasts to delete

Could not delete filter with ID

Cannot delete model as it is still referenced by ingest processors

Failed to query nodes nodeIds

Cannot delete incompatible snapshot

Cannot delete snapshot during a restore

Another snapshot is currently running cannot delete

Failed to delete snapshot snapshotId

Force delete datafeed is not supported because the datafeed task

Could not delete filter with ID filterId because it does not exist

Unable to delete rollup index rollupIndex

Failed to delete internal indices