Delete index

Delete an index.

Index creation and deletion can not be called concurrently. If you try to delete an index when there is an ongoing creation or deletion of an index, the request will fail, you will receive a 409 OperationConflictError.

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Note: This operation cannot be undone, and the deleted index can't be recovered

DELETE /indexes/{index_name}

Example

Marqo Open SourceMarqo Cloud

cURLPython

cURL -XDELETE http://localhost:8882/indexes/my-first-index

results = mq.index("my-first-index").delete()

Response: 200 OK

{"acknowledged": true}

cURLPython

cURL -XDELETE https://api.marqo.ai/api/v2/indexes/my-first-index \
-H 'x-api-key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' 

results = mq.index("my-first-index").delete()

Response: 200 OK

{"acknowledged": true}