Delete the lifecycle of a data stream
editDelete the lifecycle of a data stream
editThis functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Deletes the lifecycle from a set of data streams.
Request
editDELETE _data_stream/<data-stream>/_lifecycle
Description
editDeletes the lifecycle from the specified data streams. If multiple data streams are provided but at least one of them
does not exist, then the deletion of the lifecycle will fail for all of them and the API will respond with 404.
Path parameters
edit-
<data-stream> -
(Required, string) Comma-separated list of data streams used to limit the request. Supports wildcards (
*). To target all data streams use*or_all.
Query parameters
edit-
expand_wildcards -
(Optional, string) Type of data stream that wildcard patterns can match. Supports comma-separated values, such as
open,hidden. Valid values are:-
all,hidden - Match any data stream, including hidden ones.
-
open,closed - Matches any non-hidden data stream. Data streams cannot be closed.
-
none - Wildcard patterns are not accepted.
Defaults to
open. -
Examples
editThe following example deletes the lifecycle of my-data-stream:
DELETE _data_stream/my-data-stream/_lifecycle
When the policy is successfully deleted from all selected data streams, you receive the following result:
{
"acknowledged": true
}