elasticsearch/docs/reference/ml/anomaly-detection/apis/delete-calendar.asciidoc

[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-delete-calendar]]
= Delete calendars API
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<titleabbrev>Delete calendars</titleabbrev>
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Deletes a calendar.

[[ml-delete-calendar-request]]
== {api-request-title}

`DELETE _ml/calendars/<calendar_id>`

[[ml-delete-calendar-prereqs]]
== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have `manage_ml` or
`manage` cluster privileges to use this API. See
<<security-privileges>> and {ml-docs-setup-privileges}.

[[ml-delete-calendar-desc]]
== {api-description-title}

This API removes all scheduled events from the calendar then deletes the
calendar.

[[ml-delete-calendar-path-parms]]
== {api-path-parms-title}

`<calendar_id>`::
(Required, string)
include::{es-repo-dir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=calendar-id]

[[ml-delete-calendar-example]]
== {api-examples-title}

[source,console]
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DELETE _ml/calendars/planned-outages
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// TEST[skip:setup:calendar_outages]

When the calendar is deleted, you receive the following results:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
----