---
title: stack es security invalidate-api-key cli command
description: Invalidate API keys. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4089/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/es/security/invalidate-api-key
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack es security invalidate-api-key cli command
<cli-modifiers>
</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es security invalidate-api-key [options]
```

Invalidate API keys.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--id string">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--ids string[]">
    A list of API key ids.
    This parameter cannot be used with any of `name`, `realm_name`, or `username`.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--ids` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--name string">
    An API key name.
    This parameter cannot be used with any of `ids`, `realm_name` or `username`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--owner">
    Query API keys owned by the currently authenticated user.
    The `realm_name` or `username` parameters cannot be specified when this parameter is set to `true` as they are assumed to be the currently authenticated ones. NOTE: At least one of `ids`, `name`, `username`, and `realm_name` must be specified if `owner` is `false`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--realm-name string">
    The name of an authentication realm.
    This parameter cannot be used with either `ids` or `name`, or when `owner` flag is set to `true`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--username string">
    The username of a user.
    This parameter cannot be used with either `ids` or `name` or when `owner` flag is set to `true`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--error-trace">
    When set to `true` Elasticsearch will include the full stack trace of errors
    when they occur.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--filter-path string">
    Comma-separated list of filters in dot notation which reduce the response
    returned by Elasticsearch.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--filter-path` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--human">
    When set to `true` will return statistics in a format suitable for humans.
    For example `"exists_time": "1h"` for humans and
    `"exists_time_in_millis": 3600000` for computers. When disabled the human
    readable values will be omitted. This makes sense for responses being consumed
    only by machines.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--pretty">
    If set to `true` the returned JSON will be "pretty-formatted". Only use
    this option for debugging only.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--yes">
    confirm destructive action without prompting
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>