[[delete-pipeline-api]]
=== Delete pipeline API
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<titleabbrev>Delete pipeline</titleabbrev>
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Deletes one or more existing ingest pipeline.

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[source,console]
----
PUT /_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
{
  "description" : "example pipeline to delete",
  "processors" : [ ]
}

PUT /_ingest/pipeline/pipeline-one
{
  "description" : "another example pipeline to delete",
  "processors" : [ ]
}
----
// TESTSETUP
////

[source,console]
----
DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
----


[[delete-pipeline-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/<pipeline>`


[[delete-pipeline-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<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 `*`.
--


[[delete-pipeline-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=timeoutparms]


[[delete-pipeline-api-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}


[[delete-pipeline-api-specific-ex]]
===== Delete a specific ingest pipeline

[source,console]
----
DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/pipeline-one
----


[[delete-pipeline-api-wildcard-ex]]
===== Delete ingest pipelines using a wildcard expression

[source,console]
----
DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/pipeline-*
----


[[delete-pipeline-api-all-ex]]
===== Delete all ingest pipelines

[source,console]
----
DELETE /_ingest/pipeline/*
----

////
[source,console-result]
----
{
"acknowledged": true
}
----
////