# Delete document in elastic in ingest based on condition

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-document-in-elastic-in-ingest-based-on-condition/110838
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 8, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-document-in-elastic-in-ingest-based-on-condition/110838 "2017-12-08T12:00:30Z")
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#### Post date: [December 10, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-document-in-elastic-in-ingest-based-on-condition/110838/2 "2017-12-10T14:20:14Z")

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Filebeat and ingest pipeline are data ingestion components and they can't be used to delete documents.

Is this a case that your application logs when a document is deleted?

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