{"id":2247,"date":"2016-01-16T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codingexplained.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2017-06-11T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T16:54:59","slug":"deleting-an-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codingexplained.com\/coding\/elasticsearch\/deleting-an-index","title":{"rendered":"Deleting an Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have created an index, let&#8217;s see how we\u00a0can\u00a0delete an index. In fact, we are\u00a0going to delete the index that we created in the previous article in this series\u00a0and add it again later.<\/p>\n<p>Open the Sense plugin for Kibana and simply issue the below request to delete the index.<\/p>\n<pre><code>DELETE \/ecommerce<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Let&#8217;s ensure that the index was deleted correctly by listing all of the indexes within our cluster.<\/p>\n<pre><code>GET \/_cat\/indices?v<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size\r\nyellow open .kibana 1 1 2 0 5kb 5kb<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>As you can see, we no longer have an index with a name of <span class=\"code\">ecommerce<\/span>. Thanks to the REST API that Elasticsearch exposes, it is really that easy to delete an index in Elasticsearch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"series\">Part 7 of 35 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/codingexplained.com\/tutorial\/complete-guide-to-elasticsearch\" class=\"series-163\" title=\"Complete Guide to Elasticsearch\">Complete Guide to Elasticsearch<\/a> series<\/div><p>Now that we have created an index, let&#8217;s see how we\u00a0can\u00a0delete an index. In fact, we are\u00a0going to delete the index that we created in the previous article in this series\u00a0and add it again later. Open the Sense plugin for Kibana and simply issue the below request to delete the index. 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