Delete index

Introduced 1.0

If you no longer need an index, you can use the delete index API operation to delete it.

Path and HTTP methods

DELETE /<index-name>

All parameters are optional.

Parameter	Type	Description
allow_no_indices	Boolean	Whether to ignore wildcards that don’t match any indexes. Default is `true`.
expand_wildcards	String	Expands wildcard expressions to different indexes. Combine multiple values with commas. Available values are all (match all indexes), open (match open indexes), closed (match closed indexes), hidden (match hidden indexes), and none (do not accept wildcard expressions), which must be used with open, closed, or both. Default is `open`.
ignore_unavailable	Boolean	If true, OpenSearch does not include missing or closed indexes in the response.
cluster_manager_timeout	Time	How long to wait for a connection to the cluster manager node. Default is `30s`.
timeout	Time	How long to wait for the response to return. Default is `30s`.

DELETE /sample-index

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{
  "acknowledged": true
}