Disable user profile APIedit

The user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic’s Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions. Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly. Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.

Disables a user profile so it’s not visible in user profile searches.

Requestedit

POST /_security/profile/<uid>/_disable

PUT /_security/profile/<uid>/_disable

Prerequisitesedit

To use this API, you must have the manage_user_profile cluster privilege.

Descriptionedit

When you activate a user profile, it’s automatically enabled and visible in user profile searches. You can use the disable user profile API to disable a user profile so it’s not visible in these searches.

To re-enable a disabled user profile, use the enable user profile API .

Path parametersedit

<uid>
(Required, string) Unique identifier for the user profile.

Query parametersedit

refresh
(Optional, enum) If true, Elasticsearch refreshes the affected shards to make this operation visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false do nothing with refreshes. Valid values: true, false, wait_for. Default: false.

Examplesedit

The following request disables the user profile for a uid matching u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0:

POST /_security/profile/u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0/_disable