---
title: stack es slm delete-lifecycle cli command
description: Delete a policy. 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/cli/pull/415/cli/stack/es/slm/delete-lifecycle
---

# stack es slm delete-lifecycle cli command
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```bash
elastic stack es slm delete-lifecycle --policy-id <policy-id> [options]
```

Delete a policy.

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--policy-id string required">
    The id of the snapshot lifecycle policy to remove
  </definition>
  <definition term="--master-timeout string">
    The period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--timeout string">
    The period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
  </definition>
</definitions>


## stack Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="-V --[no-]version">
    Print the Elastic CLI version
  </definition>
  <definition term="--config-file string">
    path to a config file (default: ~/.elasticrc.yml)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--use-context string">
    override the active context from the config file
  </definition>
  <definition term="--command-profile string">
    restrict available commands to a deployment profile (serverless, stack, default)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>