Delete a lifecycle policy

You cannot delete policies that are currently in use. If the policy is being used to manage any indices, the request fails and returns an error.

Required authorization

application/json

Examples

A successful response when deleting a lifecycle policy.

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

DELETE _ilm/policy/my_policy

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.ilm.deleteLifecycle({
  name: "my_policy",
});

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.ilm.delete_lifecycle(
    name="my_policy",
)

curl Shell

curl -X DELETE "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_ilm/policy/my_policy" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.ilm().deleteLifecycle(d -> d
    .name("my_policy")
);

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.IndexLifecycleManagement.DeleteLifecycleAsync(name: "my_policy");

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->ilm()->deleteLifecycle([
    "policy" => "my_policy",
]);

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.ilm.delete_lifecycle(
  policy: "my_policy"
)

Response

{
  "acknowledged": true
}