Delete a document with Kibana

Question

Is it possible to delete a document in Kibana, and if so, then how?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what Kibana is for, but it seems like such a useful feature :) Right now I have to search, copy the document id, go to Sense and make the query, and then repeat this for each document I want to remove.

Maybe there's a plugin for Kibana that let's me do this sort of thing? I have tried Googling and searching here, but I must be using the wrong terms, or no one else is wondering the same thing.

Answer 1

Go to Kibana DevTools and Execute delete request:

DELETE IndexName/DocType/DocId
{}

Sample screen shot

Answer 2

Changing Kibana source code is the most straightforward way. However it will be hard to maintain with new releases.

Another way is to build a small API that get index, type and id of a document and then call the DELETE on the Rest API of ElasticSearch. You can then build url in Kibana using a field which is a copy of the document id.