# Performing delete operation in Kibana search bar

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 23, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300 "2015-11-23T11:43:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![KavyaS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@KavyaS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KavyaS)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/1 "2015-11-23T11:43:37Z")

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I could perform the delete operation on log lines using the sense plugin. The same syntax doesn't work in Kibana. How do we write queries in the Kibana search bar to delete data?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/2 "2015-11-24T03:56:20Z")

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You cannot, KB is only for visualising.

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**Author:** ![KavyaS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@KavyaS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KavyaS)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/3 "2015-11-24T09:07:14Z")

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Apart from sense plugin, what are the other ways we could use to perform delete operation?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/4 "2015-11-25T04:02:50Z")

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Curl, POSTMAN, any other HTTP client.

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**Author:** ![KavyaS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@KavyaS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KavyaS)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/5 "2015-11-25T06:04:04Z")

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Ok thank you.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performing-delete-operation-in-kibana-search-bar/35300/6 "2017-07-06T14:08:21Z")

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