In Object Explorer, expand the database that contains the table on which you want to delete an index.Expand the Tables folder.Expand the table that contains the index you want to delete.Expand the Indexes folder.Right-click the index you want to delete and select Delete.

How do I remove Elasticsearch indices?

You can also delete the index using DELETE action in ‘elasticsearch head’ (Chrome plugin ). Add it to your chrome and connect it to your host. There you will find all your indices and if you click on actions button below the index you want to delete, you will find a DELETE option in the drop down.

What are es indices?

In Elasticsearch, an index (plural: indices) contains a schema and can have one or more shards and replicas. An Elasticsearch index is divided into shards and each shard is an instance of a Lucene index. Indices are used to store the documents in dedicated data structures corresponding to the data type of fields.