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

Unable to delete global metadata files

Failed to delete blobs during finalization

Failed to refresh internal index after delete

Failed to delete index blobs during finalization

Failed to delete data blobs during finalization

DLM encountered an error trying to delete index %s

ML maintenance task triggerDeleteJobsInStateDeletingWithoutDeletionTask failed

Successfully completed ML maintenance task triggerDeleteExpiredDataTask

Successfully completed ML maintenance task triggerDeleteJobsInStateDeletingWithoutDeletionTask

Failed send response for shard active while trying to delete shard - shard will probably not be removed

Failed to add query

Failed to add query - parser returned null