Disable a user profile

  • POST also PUT /_security/profile/{uid}/_disable

Disable user profiles so that they are not visible in user profile searches.

NOTE: The user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic's Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions. Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly. Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.

When you activate a user profile, its automatically enabled and visible in user profile searches. You can use the disable user profile API to disable a user profile so it’s not visible in these searches. To re-enable a disabled user profile, use the enable user profile API .

  • Cluster privileges: manage_user_profile

Path Parameters

uid string required

Unique identifier for the user profile.

Query Parameters

refresh enum Refresh · default: false

If 'true', Elasticsearch refreshes the affected shards to make this operation visible to search. If 'wait_for', it waits for a refresh to make this operation visible to search. If 'false', it does nothing with refreshes.

Values: true false wait_for

Response