# Delete by query error (version conflict)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-error-version-conflict/321365>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 16, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-error-version-conflict/321365 "2022-12-16T05:10:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![theacodes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theacodes/32/113779_2.png) [@theacodes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theacodes)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-error-version-conflict/321365/1 "2022-12-16T05:10:30Z")

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I'm trying to delete some specific documents from an index with a query

```auto
POST /.ds-logs-system.syslog-default-2022.10.30-000004/_delete_by_query?pretty
{

  "query": {

    "match": {

      "process.name": "install.sh"

    }

  }

}

```

but getting this error

```auto
{
  "took": 304,
  "timed_out": false,
  "total": 1804058,
  "deleted": 0,
  "batches": 1,
  "version_conflicts": 1000,
  "noops": 0,
  "retries": {
    "bulk": 0,
    "search": 0
  },
  "throttled_millis": 0,
  "requests_per_second": -1,
  "throttled_until_millis": 0,
  "failures": [
    {
      "index": ".ds-logs-system.syslog-default-2022.10.30-000004",
      "id": "7xZevyoQBIdT1jTV9t_po",
      "cause": {
        "type": "version_conflict_engine_exception",
        "reason": "[7xZevyoQBIdT1jTV9t_po]: version conflict, required seqNo [5984267], primary term [11]. but no document was found",
        "index_uuid": "1W9e33u1SECGR5jd1_NI2k",
        "shard": "0",
        "index": ".ds-logs-system.syslog-default-2022.10.30-000004"
      },
      "status": 409
    },

```

How to resolve this error?  
OR  
How to delete documents by query by any other method?

And yes I recently updated from 8.4 to 8.5.2

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**Author:** ![theacodes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theacodes/32/113779_2.png) [@theacodes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theacodes)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-error-version-conflict/321365/2 "2022-12-21T04:57:17Z")

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Anyone?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-error-version-conflict/321365/3 "2023-01-18T04:58:00Z")

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