Delete a Kibana index from CLI

[rsaeks]

Hi there,

I've tried to create an Index Pattern in Kibana to match an Elasticsearch index, but after trying no data displays even through Elasticsearch reports 32k+ documents. When trying to view the index in Kibana, I receive the following message:

Failed to fetch
TypeError: Failed to fetch

I can click on other Indicies in the Kibana Index pattern via the Management UI but when clicking on this one (filebeat-) nothing displays. Further, I am unable to delete the index via the GUI.

Is there a command to delete the index via the CLI and attempt to re-create?

This is on Kibana 6.5

Thank you!

[lukas (Lukas Olson)]

From Console you should be able to do the following:

DELETE index-name

Or from the command line you should be able to do the following:

curl -XDELETE http://localhost:9200/index-name

[rsaeks]

Thanks! I am able to delete the individual index via Elasticsearch, but the pattern remains in Kibana. After deleting the index via Elasticsearch, it is re-created as expected with the new document records.

I can create a new Kibana index pattern to match filebeat* (instead of filebeat-*) but still receive the error message "TypeError: Failed to fetch" and Kibana hangs at Creating Index.

Clicking in either filebeat-* or filebeat* via the Kibana index pattern page results in the page hanging. I do, however, have the index ID string. Can that be deleted from Kibana in some way since the GUI is unresponsive for these patterns?