Delete an ES|QL view

Auth

Deletes a stored ES|QL view. Deleting a reserved view fails.

Required privileges

application/json

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

Examples

Request Console 1 / 7 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

DELETE /_query/view/country_addresses

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.esql.deleteView({
  name: "country_addresses",
});

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.esql.delete_view(
    name="country_addresses",
)

curl Shell

curl -X DELETE "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_query/view/country_addresses" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.Esql.DeleteViewAsync(name: new[] { "country_addresses" });

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->esql()->deleteView([
    "name" => "country_addresses",
]);

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.esql.delete_view(
  name: "country_addresses"
)

Response

The view definition was deleted successfully.

{
  "acknowledged": true
}