Delete Kibana data with cURL

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Is there a curl command to delete all Kibana visualizations and dashboards?

Maybe something like
curl -XDELETE http://localhost:5601/kibana-int/dashboard/*
?

I am using ELK v 6.3.0.

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Hi,
If you don't care about any of your data, you could probably use

curl -XDELETE ELASTICSEARCHIP:9200/*

will delete EVERYTHING.

Cheers
Rashmi

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Thanks, rashmi.

I was under the impression that Kibana stored its own copy of the visualization and dashboard information outside of elastic search. Is that not true?

Best,
Matt

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Hi,

It stores most of it in ES, in the .kibana index. This amazing blog post provides more insights: https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-under-the-hood-object-persistence

Also if you are only interested in deleting the dashboards and visualizations - you may want to use deleteByQuery with terms on type vis, dashboar on .kibana.

Cheers
Rashmi

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Thank you so much! I'll try that immediately!

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