Elasticsearch 2.1: how to delete by query using curl

Question

I have an _index: varnish_logs and _type: varnish

a field having two different values "server" : "india" and "server" : "usa"

Now I want to delete only the records which are in usa.

I tried using

$ curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/_all/_query?q=server:usa'

response: No handler found for uri [] and method [DELETE]

and also tried to delete all the data using query

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/varnish_logs/varnish/_query' -d ' { "query" :{ "match_all" : {} } }'

all I get response: found: "false"

Please let me know where I'm wrong

Answer 1

Elasticsearch has removed the delete-by-query functionality. They have instead replaced it by a plugin with same name. It is slower than the previous but fixes the problem elasticsearch had previously.

This post from elasticsearch might help.