[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-invalidate-api-key]]
=== Invalidate API key API
++++
<titleabbrev>Invalidate API key</titleabbrev>
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Invalidates one or more API keys.

[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_security/api_key`

[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To use this API, you must have at least the `manage_api_key` cluster privilege.

[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

The API keys created by <<security-api-create-api-key,create API Key>> can be
invalidated using this API.


[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-request-body]]
==== {api-request-body-title}

The following parameters can be specified in the body of a DELETE request and
pertain to invalidating api keys:

`id`::
(Optional, string) An API key id. This parameter cannot be used with any of
`name`, `realm_name` or `username` are used.

`name`::
(Optional, string) An API key name. This parameter cannot be used with any of
`id`, `realm_name` or `username` are used.

`realm_name`::
(Optional, string) The name of an authentication realm. This parameter cannot be
used with either `id` or `name`.

`username`::
(Optional, string) The username of a user. This parameter cannot be used with
either `id` or `name`.

NOTE: While all parameters are optional, at least one of them is required.

[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

A successful call returns a JSON structure that contains the ids of the API keys
that were invalidated, the ids of the API keys that had already been invalidated,
and potentially a list of errors encountered while invalidating specific api
keys.

[[security-api-invalidate-api-key-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

If you create an API key as follows:

[source, js]
------------------------------------------------------------
POST /_security/api_key
{
  "name": "my-api-key"
}
------------------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST

A successful call returns a JSON structure that provides
API key information. For example:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "id":"VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx",
  "name":"my-api-key",
  "api_key":"ui2lp2axTNmsyakw9tvNnw"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx/$body.id/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/ui2lp2axTNmsyakw9tvNnw/$body.api_key/]

The following example invalidates the API key identified by specified `id`
immediately:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE /_security/api_key
{
  "id" : "VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx/$body.id/]
// TEST[continued]

The following example invalidates the API key identified by specified `name`
immediately:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE /_security/api_key
{
  "name" : "my-api-key"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST

The following example invalidates all API keys for the `native1` realm
immediately:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE /_security/api_key
{
  "realm_name" : "native1"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST

The following example invalidates all API keys for the user `myuser` in all
realms immediately:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE /_security/api_key
{
  "username" : "myuser"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST

Finally, the following example invalidates all API keys for the user `myuser` in
 the `native1` realm immediately:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE /_security/api_key
{
  "username" : "myuser",
  "realm_name" : "native1"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "invalidated_api_keys": [ <1>
    "api-key-id-1"
  ],
  "previously_invalidated_api_keys": [ <2>
    "api-key-id-2",
    "api-key-id-3"
  ],
  "error_count": 2, <3>
  "error_details": [ <4>
    {
      "type": "exception",
      "reason": "error occurred while invalidating api keys",
      "caused_by": {
        "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason": "invalid api key id"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "exception",
      "reason": "error occurred while invalidating api keys",
      "caused_by": {
        "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason": "invalid api key id"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

<1> The IDs of the API keys that were invalidated as part of this request.
<2> The IDs of the API keys that were already invalidated.
<3> The number of errors that were encountered when invalidating the API keys.
<4> Details about these errors. This field is not present in the response when
    `error_count` is 0.
