Clear scroll API

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Clears the search context and results for a scrolling search.

DELETE /_search/scroll
{
  "scroll_id" : "DXF1ZXJ5QW5kRmV0Y2gBAAAAAAAAAD4WYm9laVYtZndUQlNsdDcwakFMNjU1QQ=="
}

Request

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DELETE /_search/scroll/<scroll_id> [7.0.0] Deprecated in 7.0.0.

DELETE /_search/scroll

Path parameters

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<scroll_id>

[7.0.0] Deprecated in 7.0.0. (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use _all.

Scroll IDs can be long. We recommend only specifying scroll IDs using the scroll_id request body parameter.

Query parameters

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scroll_id

[7.0.0] Deprecated in 7.0.0. (Optional, string) Comma-separated list of scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use _all.

Scroll IDs can be long. We recommend only specifying scroll IDs using the scroll_id request body parameter.

Request body

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scroll_id
(Required, string or array of strings) Scroll IDs to clear. To clear all scroll IDs, use _all.

Response body

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succeeded
(Boolean) If true, the request succeeded. This does not indicate whether any scrolling search requests were cleared.
num_freed
(integer) Number of scrolling search requests cleared.