Index not getting deleted in elasticsearch using delete API

Question

I created an index

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/tipindex/' -d '{
     "settings" : {
        "index" : {
            "number_of_shards" : 1,
            "number_of_replicas" : 1,
          }
     }
  }
}'

and then I associated a river with the index using the following command :

curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_river/tipindex/_meta" -d '
{
"type": "mongodb",
"mongodb": {
    "host": "<machine-name>",
    "port": "27017",
    "db": "mydb",
    "collection": "tips"
},
"index": {
    "name": "tipindex",
    "type": "tips"
 }
}'

The index is properly created and all the documents are indexed. However, if I delete the index using :

curl -XDELETE '<machine-name>:9200/tipindex/'

It completes with {"ok":true,"acknowledged":true}

ES log : [tipindex] deleting index

Now if I execute curl -XDELETE 'localhost:9200/tipindex/'

{"error":"IndexMissingException[[tipindex] missing]","status":404}

which means that index is deleted.

But if I restart elasticsearch the index is created again with 0 documents and no mapping.

If I recreate the index and associate a river, then no documents are indexed. ES log do not show any error as well.

Now my questions are :

Why is the index not getting deleted ?
When I recreate the index,why are the documents not getting indexed again?
How can I delete an index forcefully?

dadoonet dadoonet · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-03T08:46:40

It's probably due to mongo river.

Why is the index not getting deleted ?

It does recreate the index each time you restart the river if the index does not exist.

When I recreate the index,why are the documents not getting indexed again?

I think that Mongo river store in _river/tipindex index the last fetch point. As you already run the river, something is remaining in it. You can check all documents remaining in this index:

curl localhost:9200/_river/tipindex/_search?q=*

If you need to restart the river, the best option is to me to remove and recreate the river as you did before.

HTH

Index not getting deleted in elasticsearch using delete API

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