CURL command not working

Elastic Stack Logstash
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While doing some handson with ELK, I happen to delete an Index from ELK. I used the below command

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20'

but this throws the below error

Invoke-WebRequest : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'XDELETE '.
At line:1 char:6

  • curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20'
  •  ~~~~~
    • CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:slight_smile: [Invoke-WebRequest], ParameterBindingException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

So i checked whether the curl itself is working or not and found it to be working perfectly.
Please help me solve this issue

2

You're using some kind of PowerShell script that tries to emulate curl but doesn't support all options. This question has come up before and I believe there was a way to get PowerShell to send a DELETE request instead.

3

Yes am using the Windows PowerShell for server20102.

Can you please provide that instruction on how I can process that query of CURL with DELETE request? I could not find the proper solution for that

4

I don't know anything about PowerShell but I can't imagine it's difficult to find out how to make DELETE requests with Invoke-WebRequest. Over and out.

5

Try running as below,

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20 -Method Delete

6

This seems to work perfectly. Thank you very much.

But is the Invoke-WebRequest is alternative for "curl"?
Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Also I need to know, whether the deleted index be removed from all the nodes for a request if it is stashed in multiple nodes. Are all the shards be removed for a 'delete'?

7

But is the Invoke-WebRequest is alternative for "curl"?

curl is just an HTTP client. Invoke-WebRequest might not be capable of everything curl can do (and vice versa) but their feature sets should be similar.

Also I need to know, whether the deleted index be removed from all the nodes for a request if it is stashed in multiple nodes.

Yes.

Are all the shards be removed for a 'delete'?

Yes. There's no point in keeping a subset of the shards.

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Thank you Magnus