Delete a data view

When you delete a data view, you can't recover its field formatters, runtime fields, source filters, or field popularity data. Deleting a data view doesn't remove any indices or data documents from Elasticsearch.

Warning

Deleting a data view breaks all visualizations, saved Discover sessions, and other saved objects that reference it.

You need a role with the Data View Management Kibana privilege and the view_index_metadata Elasticsearch privilege. Refer to Defining roles.

You can't delete managed data views. On the Data Views management page, the delete action isn't available for these data views, and they can't be selected for bulk deletion. To use a modified version of a managed data view, duplicate it instead.

  1. Go to the Data Views management page using the navigation menu or the global search field.
  2. Find the data view that you want to delete, then select Delete icon in the Actions column.

The data view and its saved settings are removed from the Data Views page.