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How to Delete All Data in Elasticsearch?
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curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/*
@mahemoff
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@knownasilya
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curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/_all worked for me

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keithbro commented Nov 1, 2017

@diegopacheco ++

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RevoluPowered commented Apr 27, 2018 •
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xpack users this will make your cluster inaccessible on kibana, at least it did on my end.

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mb2dev commented Jun 1, 2018

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tosto92 commented Jul 3, 2018

what if my elasticsearch doesn't start because of the big amount of data? is there a way to purge everything without breaking it?

@Roy-Orbison
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@tosto92 if you can afford to wipe out the structure too, then

  1. stop elastic service
  2. rename data dir (append a ~) usually in /var/lib/elasticsearch
  3. start service
  4. recreate indices
  5. repopulate with data

If it goes bad, just revert the rename in the same manner.

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patelvp commented Sep 23, 2020

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