# Delete by Query in ES 2.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-in-es-2-0/36331 "2015-12-04T00:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-in-es-2-0/36331/1 "2015-12-04T00:24:44Z")
There are a number of threads on this topic, but I can't make it work in ES 2.0 I've looked at the documentation for Delete API but it only mentions delete by document id. I would like to: 1. Query for a set of records with a given set of attributes and 2. Delete that same set based on the same set of query parms This is so I can remove some of the entries from a large dataset without having to reload that whole data set from scratch. Please let point me in the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-in-es-2-0/36331/2 "2015-12-04T00:32:44Z")
Delete by query was moved to a plugin in 2.0: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/plugins-delete-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/plugins-delete-by-query.html) ---
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-in-es-2-0/36331/3 "2015-12-04T14:23:24Z")
Thank you much - ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-by-query-in-es-2-0/36331/4 "2017-07-05T23:33:32Z")