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Delete pipeline API

Deletes one or more existing ingest pipeline.

DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id

Request

DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/<pipeline>

Prerequisites

If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage_pipeline, manage_ingest_pipelines, or manage cluster privilege to use this API.

Path parameters

<pipeline>

(Required, string) Pipeline ID or wildcard expression of pipeline IDs used to limit the request.

To delete all ingest pipelines in a cluster, use a value of *.

Query parameters

master_timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.
timeout: (Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

Examples

Delete a specific ingest pipeline

DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/pipeline-one

Delete ingest pipelines using a wildcard expression

DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/pipeline-*

Delete all ingest pipelines

DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/*

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