Type to search.

Delete a search application

  • DELETE /_application/search_application/{name}
Auth The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Beta since 8.8 This functionality is in beta and is not ready for production usage. For beta features, the design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. 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.

Remove a search application and its associated alias. Indices attached to the search application are not removed.

Required privileges

Index privileges manage
Cluster privileges manage_search_application

Path parameters

name string required

The name of the search application to delete.

Response

application/json
acknowledged boolean required

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