[[indices-delete-template]]
=== Delete index template API
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<titleabbrev>Delete index template</titleabbrev>
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Deletes an existing index.

////
[source,console]
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PUT _template/template_1
{
 "index_patterns" : ["te*"],
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 1
  }
}
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// TESTSETUP
////

[source,console]
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DELETE /_template/template_1
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[[delete-template-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_template/<index-template>`


[[delete-template-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Use the delete index template API to delete one or more index templates

include::templates.asciidoc[tag=index-template-def]


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

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


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

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