# How to remove unwanted records

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099 "2020-07-14T09:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shaun\_Mccullagh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaun_mccullagh/32/46322_2.png) [@Shaun\_Mccullagh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaun_Mccullagh)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099/1 "2020-07-14T09:00:34Z")

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Hi,

I want to delete all records containing Project:cfa\_uk and env:tst from my ElasticSearch indexes.

I created this son data file:

```
{
    "query": {
        "query_string" : {
            "fields" : ["project", "env"],
            "query" : "cfa_uk AND tst"
        }
    }
}

```

`  
And executed

`curl -d "@data.txt" --user 'ukadmin:XXXXXXX' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET https://kibana.maxown.com/logstream-2020-06-14/_delete_by_query`

But I get a 400:

```
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No endpoint or operation is available at [_delete_by_query]"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No endpoint or operation is available at [_delete_by_query]"},"status":400}

```

I think this is because I am using the wrong URL.

Please could someone explain where I have made a mistake?

TIA

S

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099/2 "2020-07-14T09:18:19Z")

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I think you should use POST instead of GET

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**Author:** ![Shaun\_Mccullagh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaun_mccullagh/32/46322_2.png) [@Shaun\_Mccullagh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaun_Mccullagh)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099/3 "2020-07-14T09:19:51Z")

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Thanks so much, works fine now!

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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 11, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-records/241099/4 "2020-08-11T09:20:01Z")

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