# How to delete documents in an index based on condition in elastic search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-documents-in-an-index-based-on-condition-in-elastic-search/169806
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-documents-in-an-index-based-on-condition-in-elastic-search/169806 "2019-02-25T11:12:40Z")
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### Author:  [@PRUDHVI\_CHOWDHARY\_NE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PRUDHVI_CHOWDHARY_NE)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-documents-in-an-index-based-on-condition-in-elastic-search/169806/1 "2019-02-25T11:12:41Z")
i have data like name,age,class,registered time in an index called student in my elastic search
i want to delete the documents that are having registered time less than some timestamp(suppose be 15546000xxxxxx).
how can do this ?
what will be the query to be run in dev console
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-documents-in-an-index-based-on-condition-in-elastic-search/169806/2 "2019-02-25T11:46:36Z")
You can use the Delete by Query API. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-delete-by-query.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-documents-in-an-index-based-on-condition-in-elastic-search/169806/3 "2019-03-25T11:46:45Z")
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