Bulk delete workflows

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

DELETE /api/workflows

Auth

Delete multiple workflows by their IDs.

Required authorization

Privileges workflowsManagement:delete

Query parameters

force boolean · default: false: When true, permanently deletes the workflows (hard delete) instead of soft-deleting them. The workflow IDs become available for reuse.

Header parameters

kbn-xsrf string required: A required header to protect against CSRF attacks

Request body

ids string[] · max items: 1000 required: Array of workflow IDs to delete.

Response

200

Indicates a successful response

application/json

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 3 languages

Example request for deleting multiple workflows

Console Kibana Dev Tools

DELETE kbn://api/workflows
{
  "ids": ["workflow-c3d4e5f6-a7b8-9012-cdef-234567890123", "workflow-d4e5f6a7-b8c9-0123-defa-345678901234"]
}

curl Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE "${KIBANA_URL}/api/workflows" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ids": ["workflow-c3d4e5f6-a7b8-9012-cdef-234567890123", "workflow-d4e5f6a7-b8c9-0123-defa-345678901234"]
  }'

curl Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE "${KIBANA_URL}/api/workflows?force=true" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ids": ["workflow-c3d4e5f6-a7b8-9012-cdef-234567890123", "workflow-d4e5f6a7-b8c9-0123-defa-345678901234"]
  }'

Response

Example response after deleting multiple workflows

{
  "deleted": 2,
  "failures": [],
  "total": 2
}

Required authorization

Query parameters

Header parameters

Request body { }

Response

Request body