Delete a dangling index

DELETE /_dangling/{index_uuid}

Auth

If Elasticsearch encounters index data that is absent from the current cluster state, those indices are considered to be dangling. For example, this can happen if you delete more than cluster.indices.tombstones.size indices while an Elasticsearch node is offline.

Required authorization

Cluster privileges manage

Path parameters

index_uuid string required: The UUID of the index to delete. Use the get dangling indices API to find the UUID.

Query parameters

accept_data_loss boolean · default: false: This parameter must be set to true to acknowledge that it will no longer be possible to recove data from the dangling index.
master_timeout string · default: 30s: The period to wait for a connection to the master node.
timeout string · default: 30s: The period to wait for a response.

Response

application/json

acknowledged boolean required: For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.

Examples

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

DELETE /_dangling/<index-uuid>?accept_data_loss=true

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.danglingIndices.deleteDanglingIndex({
  index_uuid: "<index-uuid>",
  accept_data_loss: "true",
});

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.dangling_indices.delete_dangling_index(
    index_uuid="<index-uuid>",
    accept_data_loss=True,
)

curl Shell

curl -X DELETE "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_dangling/<index-uuid>?accept_data_loss=true" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.danglingIndices().deleteDanglingIndex(d -> d
    .acceptDataLoss(true)
    .indexUuid("<index-uuid>")
);

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.DanglingIndices
    .DeleteDanglingIndexAsync(indexUuid: "<index-uuid>", d1 => d1
        .AcceptDataLoss(true)
    );

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->danglingIndices()->deleteDanglingIndex([
    "index_uuid" => "<index-uuid>",
    "accept_data_loss" => "true",
]);

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.dangling_indices.delete_dangling_index(
  index_uuid: "<index-uuid>",
  accept_data_loss: "true"
)

Response

{
  "acknowledged": false
}

Generated from the API spec