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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition
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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

by Alberto Paro
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
12h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Deleting an index

The counterpart of creating an index is deleting one. Deleting an index means deleting its shards, mappings, and data. There are many common scenarios when we need to delete an index, such as:

  • Removing the index to clean unwanted/obsolete data (for example, old Logstash indices).
  • Resetting an index for a scratch restart.
  • Deleting an index that has some missing shards, mainly due to some failures, to bring the cluster back in a valid state. (If a node dies and it's storing a single replica shard of an index, this index is missing a shard so the cluster state becomes red. In this case, you'll bring back the cluster to a green status, but you lose the data contained in the deleted index.)

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ISBN: 9781786465580