# Deleting app-search engines

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848 "2019-10-09T14:30:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![teja\_sri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/teja_sri/32/55614_2.png) [@teja\_sri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teja_sri)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/1 "2019-10-09T14:30:44Z")

</div>

Hey All,  
I am trying to delete an app-search engine and trying to create another engine with the same name as the deleted engine but I am getting the error as 'name cannot be reused'. Can anyone tell me why is this occurring and what is the solution.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![goodroot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/goodroot/32/38389_2.png) [@goodroot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodroot)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/2 "2019-10-09T14:44:26Z")

</div>

Hey there teja\_sir!

Thanks for joining the community.

Are you using self-managed App Search?

If so, which version?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![teja\_sri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/teja_sri/32/55614_2.png) [@teja\_sri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teja_sri)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/3 "2019-10-09T14:46:10Z")

</div>

I am using self-managed app-search and the version is : v7.3.0

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![goodroot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/goodroot/32/38389_2.png) [@goodroot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodroot)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/4 "2019-10-09T14:53:03Z")

</div>

Duplicate: [Deleting app-search engines](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/2)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![goodroot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/goodroot/32/38389_2.png) [@goodroot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodroot)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-app-search-engines/202848/5 "2019-10-09T15:37:35Z")

</div>