Type to search.

Delete an async SQL search

  • DELETE /_sql/async/delete/{id}
Auth The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 7.15 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.

Delete an async SQL search or a stored synchronous SQL search. If the search is still running, the API cancels it.

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

  • Users with the cancel_task cluster privilege.
  • The user who first submitted the search.

Required privileges

Cluster privileges cancel_task

Path parameters

id string required

The identifier for the search.

Response

application/json
acknowledged boolean required

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