# Deleteing index times out
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 14, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111 "2014-06-14T16:33:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Kiran\_Koduru1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kiran_Koduru1)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111/1 "2014-06-14T16:33:11Z")
I am trying to delete an index called \*dataenvironmentalmarkets \*through a
curl request.
curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/)'
The requests times out with an exception
{"error":"ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException[failed to process cluster
event (delete-index [dataenvironmentalmarkets]) within 30s]","status":503}
I also tried extending the timeout to 15m using
curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m)'
and
curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m)'
The same error. Maybe I am skipping something. Can you help ?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111/2 "2014-06-14T23:45:59Z")
How big is the index?
Have you had a look at your ES logs to see if there is anything?
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
On 15 June 2014 02:33, Kiran Koduru [crazycreature11@gmail.com](mailto:crazycreature11@gmail.com) wrote:
> I am trying to delete an index called \*dataenvironmentalmarkets \*through
> a curl request.
>
> curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/)'
>
> The requests times out with an exception
>
> {"error":"ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException[failed to process cluster
> event (delete-index [dataenvironmentalmarkets]) within 30s]","status":503}
>
> I also tried extending the timeout to 15m using
>
> curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m)
> '
>
> and
>
> curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m)'
>
> The same error. Maybe I am skipping something. Can you help ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111/3 "2014-06-15T01:10:03Z")
I've had deleted time out for large indexes one or twice but when I checked
back the index was deleted successfully. It'd be weirder for the index to
stick around I think.
On Jun 14, 2014 7:46 PM, "Mark Walkom" [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) wrote:
> How big is the index?
> Have you had a look at your ES logs to see if there is anything?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Walkom
>
> Infrastructure Engineer
> Campaign Monitor
> email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
> web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
>
> On 15 June 2014 02:33, Kiran Koduru [crazycreature11@gmail.com](mailto:crazycreature11@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > I am trying to delete an index called \*dataenvironmentalmarkets \*through
> > a curl request.
> >
> > curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/)'
> >
> > The requests times out with an exception
> >
> > {"error":"ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException[failed to process cluster
> > event (delete-index [dataenvironmentalmarkets]) within 30s]","status":503
> > }
> >
> > I also tried extending the timeout to 15m using
> >
> > curl -XDELETE '
> > [http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets/?timeout=15m)'
> >
> > and
> >
> > curl -XDELETE '[http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m](http://myurl.com:9200/dataenvironmentalmarkets?timeout=15m)
> > '
> >
> > The same error. Maybe I am skipping something. Can you help ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleteing-index-times-out/18111/4 "2017-07-06T01:22:31Z")