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[[dangling-index-delete]]
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=== Delete dangling index API
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<titleabbrev>Delete dangling index</titleabbrev>
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Deletes a dangling index.
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[[dangling-index-delete-api-request]]
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==== {api-request-title}
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[source,console]
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--------------------------------------------------
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DELETE /_dangling/<index-uuid>?accept_data_loss=true
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--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[skip:Difficult to set up]
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[[dangling-index-delete-api-desc]]
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==== {api-description-title}
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include::{es-repo-dir}/indices/dangling-indices-list.asciidoc[tag=dangling-index-description]
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Deletes a dangling index by referencing its UUID. Use the
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<<dangling-indices-list,List dangling indices API>> to locate the UUID of an index.
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[[dangling-index-delete-api-path-params]]
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==== {api-path-parms-title}
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`<index-uuid>`::
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(Required, string)
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UUID of the index to delete. You can find this using the
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<<dangling-indices-list,List dangling indices API>>.
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[[dangling-index-delete-api-query-params]]
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==== {api-query-parms-title}
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`accept_data_loss`::
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(Optional, boolean)
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This field must be set to `true` in order to carry out the import, since it will
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no longer be possible to recover the data from the dangling index.
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include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=timeout]
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