# How to delete all documents present in the index without deleting the Index and its mapping

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-all-documents-present-in-the-index-without-deleting-the-index-and-its-mapping/93891>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-all-documents-present-in-the-index-without-deleting-the-index-and-its-mapping/93891 "2017-07-20T09:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![patil-akshay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/patil-akshay/32/15295_2.png) [@patil-akshay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patil-akshay)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-all-documents-present-in-the-index-without-deleting-the-index-and-its-mapping/93891/1 "2017-07-20T09:18:50Z")

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I have index logstash-test of type logs I just want to delete documents present in it.

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**Author:** ![Yaswanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/94ad74/32.png) [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-all-documents-present-in-the-index-without-deleting-the-index-and-its-mapping/93891/2 "2017-07-20T09:41:51Z")

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you can try delete\_by\_query . Try the below if ur ES is 5.x

```
POST logstash-test/logs/_delete_by_query?conflicts=proceed
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}

```

If you are having 2.x then you use this

```
DELETE /logstash-test/logs/_query
   {
      "query": {
        "match_all": {}
      }
    }

```

Thanks

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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:** [August 17, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-all-documents-present-in-the-index-without-deleting-the-index-and-its-mapping/93891/3 "2017-08-17T09:41:53Z")

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