So I seem to have an issue similar to the one in this question here and have accidentally indexed over 1,000,000 events on the same second. I want to delete them but I can't because the search won't run because it will produce the same error as seen in the title. Is there any way to solve this without deleting the whole index?
Try this - if it runs, then you should be able to delete it in chunks.
earliest="the exact time you want to delete" | head 90000
The
| head 90000
does not work...
Identify events with some unique keywords and use them in the search and then apply delete command. Of course earliest and latest time is required not to delete other events.