Delete expired data APIedit

Deletes expired and unused machine learning data.

Requestedit

DELETE _xpack/ml/_delete_expired_data

Descriptionedit

Deletes all job results, model snapshots and forecast data that have exceeded their retention days period. Machine learning state documents that are not associated with any job are also deleted.

Authorizationedit

You must have manage_ml, or manage cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges and Built-in roles.

Examplesedit

The endpoint takes no arguments:

DELETE _xpack/ml/_delete_expired_data

When the expired data is deleted, you receive the following response:

{
  "deleted": true
}