[role="xpack"]
[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline]]
=== Delete {ls} pipeline API
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<titleabbrev>Delete {ls} pipeline</titleabbrev>
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This API deletes a pipeline used for
{logstash-ref}/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management.html[{ls} Central
Management].

[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE _logstash/pipeline/<pipeline_id>`

[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the
`manage_logstash_pipelines` cluster privilege to use this API.

[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

Deletes a {ls} pipeline.

[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<pipeline_id>`::
  (Required, string) Identifier for the Pipeline.

[[logstash-api-delete-pipeline-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example deletes the Pipeline named `my_pipeline`:

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[source,console]
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PUT _logstash/pipeline/my_pipeline
{
  "description": "Sample Pipeline for illustration purposes",
  "last_modified": "2021-01-02T02:50:51.250Z",
  "pipeline_metadata": {
    "type": "logstash_pipeline",
    "version": "1"
  },
  "username": "elastic",
  "pipeline": "input {}\n filter { grok {} }\n output {}",
  "pipeline_settings": {
    "pipeline.workers": 1,
    "pipeline.batch.size": 125,
    "pipeline.batch.delay": 50,
    "queue.type": "memory",
    "queue.max_bytes": "1gb",
    "queue.checkpoint.writes": 1024
  }
}
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[source,console]
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DELETE _logstash/pipeline/my_pipeline
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// TEST[continued]


If the request succeeds, you receive an empty response with an appropriate
status code.
