Documentation doesn't say anything about how to delete task by id https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html

No delete task by id API in ES cluster? Intentionally? Not documented?

warkolm (Mark Walkom) June 15, 2017, 10:52pm 4

No it is not.

How do you delete the task document once the task has completed?

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