Type to search.

Delete an async ES|QL query

  • DELETE /_query/async/{id}
Auth The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 8.13 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

If the query is still running, it is cancelled. Otherwise, the stored results are deleted.

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, only the following users can use this API to delete a query:

  • The authenticated user that submitted the original query request
  • Users with the cancel_task cluster privilege
More about ES|QL reference

Required privileges

Cluster privileges cancel_task

Path parameters

id string required

The unique identifier of the query. A query ID is provided in the ES|QL async query API response for a query that does not complete in the designated time. A query ID is also provided when the request was submitted with the keep_on_completion parameter set to true.

Response

application/json
acknowledged boolean required

For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.