[role="xpack"]
[testenv="basic"]
[[delete-license]]
=== Delete license API
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<titleabbrev>Delete license</titleabbrev>
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This API enables you to delete licensing information.

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==== Request

`DELETE /_license`

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==== Description

When your license expires, {xpack} operates in a degraded mode.  For more
information, see {stack-ov}/license-expiration.html[License Expiration].

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==== Authorization

You must have `manage` cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see
<<security-privileges>>.

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==== Examples

The following example queries the info API:

[source,console]
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DELETE /_license
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// TEST[skip:license testing issues]

When the license is successfully deleted, the API returns the following response:
[source,js]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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// NOTCONSOLE