deleting specific log events

[newmember]

Would this be correct syntax to delete all SourceName fields that contain "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing"?
The Query in the GUI looks to be a good filter.
24hrs has = 262300014 hits

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curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/logstash-*/_query?q=SourceName="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing"'

Cheers

[scottwilkerson]

Deleting by query isn't natively available in this verison of ES

You have to add it via plugin
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic ... query.html

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cd /usr/local/nagioslogserver/elasticsearch/
sudo bin/plugin --install delete-by-query -u https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/delete-by-query/2.4.6/delete-by-query-2.4.6.zip
systemctl restart elasticsearch

then your query should work.

******NOTE******, this obviously is a destructive query, make sure you have a backup of all pertinent data before running in-case something goes wrong.