Delete specific data from elastic search index

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Delete specific data from elastic search data

i want to delete specific data like , want to delete data where date is 01012018 from index "mydata"

please help

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May be you want this? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/docs-delete-by-query.html

But if you have time based data, it could be much better to use time based indices (daily index) and simply drop the index.