Unable to delete index pattern in Kibana 7.15

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1

I have moved from ELK 7.9 to ELK 7.15 in an attempt to solve this problem and it looks like all that effort was of no use. I am still unable to delete the index pattern in Kibana, neither through the console, nor through the GUI.

Trying to delete it from the saved objects section simply gets stuck for ever on this screen

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Deleting it from the below, temporarily shows that the index pattern has been deleted. But once you reload the page, it comes back again

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The Elasticsearch index does get deleted successfully however.

Trying it all from the devtools also does not seem to work. Some of the attempts made and the respective outputs are shown below:

GET .kibana/_search
{
  "_source": ["index-pattern.title"],
  "query": {
    "term": {
      "type": "index-pattern"
    }
  }
}

{
  "took" : 2,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : {
      "value" : 1,
      "relation" : "eq"
    },
    "max_score" : 4.0535226,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : ".kibana_7.15.0_001",
        "_type" : "_doc",
        "_id" : "index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30",
        "_score" : 4.0535226,
        "_source" : {
          "index-pattern" : {
            "title" : "all-security-bugs-from-jira"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}


DELETE /index_patterns/index_pattern/index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "no such index [index_patterns]",
        "resource.type" : "index_expression",
        "resource.id" : "index_patterns",
        "index_uuid" : "_na_",
        "index" : "index_patterns"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "no such index [index_patterns]",
    "resource.type" : "index_expression",
    "resource.id" : "index_patterns",
    "index_uuid" : "_na_",
    "index" : "index_patterns"
  },
  "status" : 404
}


DELETE index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "no such index [index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30]",
        "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
        "resource.id" : "index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30",
        "index_uuid" : "_na_",
        "index" : "index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "no such index [index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30]",
    "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
    "resource.id" : "index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30",
    "index_uuid" : "_na_",
    "index" : "index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30"
  },
  "status" : 404
}


DELETE 822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "no such index [822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30]",
        "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
        "resource.id" : "822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30",
        "index_uuid" : "_na_",
        "index" : "822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "no such index [822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30]",
    "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
    "resource.id" : "822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30",
    "index_uuid" : "_na_",
    "index" : "822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30"
  },
  "status" : 404
}


GET /.kibana?pretty

does not give any document with the index pattern concerned.
I have been trying to follow the suggestions on Can't delete index pattern in Kibana - #5 by Pippo

Any help understanding what could I be doing wrong here is greatly appreciated.

2

Have you tried delete_by_query API on .kibana_7.15.0_001 index, to match and delete the index pattern you want from the dev tools.

3

I did. But since the .kibana_7.15.0_001 does not seem to contain the pattern itself, it is not making any difference (I guess). Any other suggestions ? Or am I thinking this straight?

4

This finally worked with

DELETE .kibana/_doc/index-pattern:822d7f50-7cd9-11ec-95d5-a3730f55fd30
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