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Delete job APIedit

This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

This API deletes an existing rollup job. A job must be stopped first before it can be deleted. Attempting to delete a started job will result in an error. Similarly, attempting to delete a nonexistent job will throw an exception.

Deleting the job does not delete rolled up data

When a job is deleted, that only removes the process that is actively monitoring and rolling up data. It does not delete any previously rolled up data. This is by design; a user may wish to roll up a static dataset. Because the dataset is static, once it has been fully rolled up there is no need to keep the indexing Rollup job around (as there will be no new data). So the job may be deleted, leaving behind the rolled up data for analysis.

If you wish to also remove the rollup data, and the rollup index only contains the data for a single job, you can simply delete the whole rollup index. If the rollup index stores data from several jobs, you must issue a Delete-By-Query that targets the Rollup job’s ID in the rollup index:

POST my_rollup_index/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": {
    "term": {
      "_rollup.id": "the_rollup_job_id"
    }
  }
}

Requestedit

DELETE _xpack/rollup/job/<job_id>

Path Parametersedit

job_id (required)
(string) Identifier for the job

Request Bodyedit

There is no request body for the Delete Job API.

Authorizationedit

You must have manage or manage_rollup cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Examplesedit

If we have a rollup job named sensor, it can be deleted with:

DELETE _xpack/rollup/job/sensor

Which will return the response:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}

If however we try to delete a job which doesn’t exist:

DELETE _xpack/rollup/job/does_not_exist

A 404 resource_not_found exception will be thrown:

{
    "error" : {
        "root_cause" : [
            {
                "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
                "reason" : "the task with id [does_not_exist] doesn't exist",
                "stack_trace": ...
            }
        ],
        "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "the task with id [does_not_exist] doesn't exist",
        "stack_trace": ...
    },
    "status": 404
}
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