Delete a dangling index | Elasticsearch API documentation

Delete a dangling index Generally available; Added in 7.9.0

DELETE /_dangling/{index_uuid}

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

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

The period to wait for a connection to the master node.

External documentation
timeout string

The period to wait for a response.

External documentation

Responses

200 application/json
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- acknowledged boolean Required
  
  For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.

DELETE /_dangling/{index_uuid}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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