# Duplicate ID
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502 "2018-08-08T11:45:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Sulaiman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sulaiman)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502/1 "2018-08-08T11:45:47Z")
How to delete / avoid duplicate ID's cause I have few similar logs which are comming from wazuh, so I would like to remove duplicate ids .
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502/2 "2018-08-08T12:26:20Z")
If you use the id as the document id and use the create API that should reject insertion of a second document with the same id.
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### Author:  [@Sulaiman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sulaiman)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502/3 "2018-08-08T15:17:55Z")
Can you please share some usable code if possible.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502/4 "2018-08-08T18:08:00Z")
Sure [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-index\_.html#operation-type](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-index_.html#operation-type)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-id/143502/5 "2018-09-05T18:09:43Z")
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