This document describes how to use Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch (ES) to delete documents.

Use the Kibana console to access Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch, and send the following request to delete documents.
  • Delete a document with a specified ID: 
    DELETE /my_index/my_type/2
    If the request is successful, the following result is returned: 
    {
  "_index" : "my_index",
  "_type" : "my_type",
  "_id" : "2",
  "_version" : 4,
  "result" : "deleted",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 2,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 3,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}
  • Delete all documents in a specified index: 
    DELETE /my_index
    If the request is successful, the following result is returned: 
    {
  "acknowledged" : true
}