Disable user profile API
editDisable user profile API
editThe user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic’s Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions. Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly. Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.
Disables a user profile so it’s not visible in user profile searches.
Prerequisites
editTo use this API, you must have the manage_user_profile cluster privilege.
Description
editWhen you activate a user profile, it’s automatically enabled and visible in user profile searches. You can use the disable user profile API to disable a user profile so it’s not visible in these searches.
To re-enable a disabled user profile, use the enable user profile API .
Path parameters
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<uid> - (Required, string) Unique identifier for the user profile.
Query parameters
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refresh -
(Optional, enum) If
true, Elasticsearch refreshes the affected shards to make this operation visible to search, ifwait_forthen wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, iffalsedo nothing with refreshes. Valid values:true,false,wait_for. Default:false.
Examples
editThe following request disables the user profile for a uid matching
u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0:
POST /_security/profile/u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0/_disable