---
title: stack es ccr forget-follower cli command
description: Forget a follower. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/cli/pull/487/cli/stack/es/ccr/forget-follower
---

# stack es ccr forget-follower cli command
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</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es ccr forget-follower --index <index> [options]
```

Forget a follower.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--index string required">
    Name of the leader index for which specified follower retention leases should be removed
  </definition>
  <definition term="--timeout string">
    Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--follower-cluster string">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--follower-index string">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--follower-index-uuid string">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--leader-remote-cluster string">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--[no-]json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>