elasticsearch/docs/reference/ml/apis/delete-snapshot.asciidoc

[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-delete-snapshot]]
=== Delete model snapshots API
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<titleabbrev>Delete model snapshots</titleabbrev>
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Deletes an existing model snapshot.

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

`DELETE _ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/model_snapshots/<snapshot_id>`

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

IMPORTANT: You cannot delete the active model snapshot. To delete that snapshot,
first revert to a different one. To identify the active model snapshot, refer to
the `model_snapshot_id` in the results from the get jobs API.

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

`job_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the job

`snapshot_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the model snapshot

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

You must have `manage_ml`, or `manage` cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see {xpack-ref}/security-privileges.html[Security Privileges].

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

The following example deletes the `1491948163` snapshot:

[source,js]
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DELETE _ml/anomaly_detectors/farequote/model_snapshots/1491948163
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[skip:todo]

When the snapshot is deleted, you receive the following results:
[source,js]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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// TESTRESPONSE