# Delete logs in elasticsearch with multiple queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517 "2017-04-06T17:32:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rupesh_ranjan/32/22283_2.png) [@Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rupesh_Ranjan)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517/1 "2017-04-06T17:32:05Z")

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I want to delete logs in elasticsearch based on query with multiple terms.  
E.g. Delete all logs with "tags: local AND message: info".

The log which contain both of them in respective fields, only those are to be deleted.

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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517/2 "2017-04-06T17:32:52Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html)

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**Author:** ![Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rupesh_ranjan/32/22283_2.png) [@Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rupesh_Ranjan)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517/3 "2017-04-06T17:44:29Z")

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Been through this, used "term" and "match" methods, but these methods does not support multiple field queries.

```
POST trial-*/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "tags": "local",
      "message": "info"
    }
  }
}

```

This returns

> {  
> "error": {  
> "root\_cause": [  
> {  
> "type": "parsing\_exception",  
> "reason": "[match] query doesn't support multiple fields, found [message] and [tags]",  
> "line": 1,  
> "col": 45  
> }  
> ],  
> "type": "parsing\_exception",  
> "reason": "[match] query doesn't support multiple fields, found [message] and [tags]",  
> "line": 1,  
> "col": 45  
> },  
> "status": 400  
> }

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**Author:** ![Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rupesh_ranjan/32/22283_2.png) [@Rupesh\_Ranjan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rupesh_Ranjan)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517/4 "2017-04-06T17:52:45Z")

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Found the solution. Below works

```
POST trial-*/_delete_by_query 
{
"query": {
        "bool": {
            "must": [
            { "term": { "tags": "local"}},
            { "term": { "message": "info"}}
            ]
        }
    }
}
```

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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:** [May 4, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-logs-in-elasticsearch-with-multiple-queries/81517/5 "2017-05-04T17:53:20Z")

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