# Delete Kibana data with cURL
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 20, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739 "2018-06-20T17:03:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mrbarret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrbarret)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/1 "2018-06-20T17:03:55Z")
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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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/2 "2018-06-20T17:28:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@mrbarret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrbarret)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/3 "2018-06-20T17:40:28Z")
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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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/4 "2018-06-20T17:57:54Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@mrbarret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrbarret)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/5 "2018-06-20T18:11:34Z")
Thank you so much! I'll try that immediately!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-kibana-data-with-curl/136739/6 "2018-07-18T18:11:38Z")
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