https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/delete-metrics-data/m-p/306118#M57743 <P>I am trying to figure out how to delete metrics data. "| delete" doesn't work with mstats, is there another way?</P> <P>Thanks,</P> <P>Vadim</P> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:42:10 GMT kutsyy 2017-11-28T19:42:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/delete-metrics-data/m-p/306118#M57743 <P>I am trying to figure out how to delete metrics data. "| delete" doesn't work with mstats, is there another way?</P> <P>Thanks,</P> <P>Vadim</P> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:42:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/delete-metrics-data/m-p/306118#M57743 kutsyy 2017-11-28T19:42:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/delete-metrics-data/m-p/306119#M57744 <P>You have to clear out the whole index (<CODE>bin\splunk clean eventdata ...</CODE>), or, more unsafely, delete the buckets/directories from the file system containing the bad data.</P> <P>As of now, there is no supporting of the <CODE>delete</CODE> command. See my rantings here: <A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/579720/should-metrics-indexes-support-overwriting-events-1.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/579720/should-metrics-indexes-support-overwriting-events-1.html</A></P> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:05:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/delete-metrics-data/m-p/306119#M57744 rjthibod 2017-11-28T20:05:08Z