Trying to just delete the field. The main real world problem I'm facing is that if the fields picker is expanded in Kibana and there are 15K of them it bogs down the browser. :) Could be a area of improvement there for Kibana to impose a limit.
Thanks, -Chris On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ivan Brusic <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you looking to delete the documents or just the field? If you are > trying to delete the entire document that contains the field, you could use > a delete by query where the query contains on exists filter: > > > http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html > > http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-exists-filter.html > > However, you will not be able to use wildcards in the exists filter, so > you will need to explicitly state each filter. That's the best I can think > of. :) > > Cheers, > > Ivan > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Chris Laplante <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a number of fields (15K) that were created inadvertently. >> >> How would I delete them all from all indexes based on a pattern of the >> field name. >> >> Eg all the fields I want to delete are in indexes named with the standard >> logstash naming and are >> >> "calculus_data.calculus_*" >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Chris >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0ff099ca-5db2-4f34-a6fb-e418d8d38dac%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0ff099ca-5db2-4f34-a6fb-e418d8d38dac%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/C6rr8dJf_ZM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDRZczMoRahZfOvAhezU66zXT9ijq63xfgWj9zcnDWCeg%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDRZczMoRahZfOvAhezU66zXT9ijq63xfgWj9zcnDWCeg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPWb6tqpLHk46hVeJfVyD9rZHPJP%2BmqPv6dLg8ytHYoeMVr3cA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
