Let's say I have an index called car. The documents in car have the following fields:

• constructionYear
• seats
• decommissioned
• …

Now I want to periodically delete all documents where decommissioned is true.

Is there a way to configure such a job on the Elasticsearch server? Or do I have to perform a REST call every time I want to clean up the index?

CodePudding user response：

you'd need to build a delete by query to manage this, and then schedule it outside of Elasticsearch to be run every so often. there's no inbuilt scheduler for Elasticsearch to do this

however, to the point of Yuri's comment above, why not just leave them? you can still run analytics on the data