Hi Team, I need your help to understand how to set TTL like mechanism to delete the Elastic Search documentation automatically once it's reached the expiration time. I have read about delete by query API but the problem here is we have to execute it manually.

In that specific case, you need a script to do it. Try this: (replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and test accordingly. mind the https, don't know if you use http or https. if you don't have username/password remove USERNAME:PASSWORD@) Credit to @ Jenni for the script, she helped me when I had a similar iss…

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Arun_N (Arun n) September 1, 2020, 12:11pm 3

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Is it possible to use cron schedule to execute delete by query API, if possible please give me a reference.

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