Deleting the Pulse Opensearch Indices

Deleting the Pulse Opensearch Indices

The size of the Opensearch indices can be found in the Pulse About page:

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To reduce the size, you can use the maintenance jobs parameters from the Pulse.cfg file as it is explained in the following article:

It is also possible to delete one specific index. There is no way to bring back an index once that has been deleted.

To do that, open Pulse Explorer and go to the Developer tool under Management then enter DELETE indexName, for example:

  • DELETE pulse-tm1-top-2021-01-10

You can use the “*” to delete all indices starting with a specific text, for example:

  • DELETE pulse-tm1-top-2021-01*

This will delete all indices starting with pulse-tm1-top-2021-01

Finally, press the play button to execute the query:

Enabling the Pulse Explorer console

The console is disabled by default. To enable it:

  1. Stop Pulse Opensearch Dashboard service

  2. Open the <Pulse for TM1 directory>/conf/dashboards/opensearch_dashboards.yml

  3. set console.enabled to true

  4. Start Pulse Opensearch Dashboard service