[[delete-connector-sync-job-api]]
=== Delete connector sync job API
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<titleabbrev>Delete connector sync job</titleabbrev>
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Removes a connector sync job and its associated data.
This is a destructive action that is not recoverable.

[[delete-connector-sync-job-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE _connector/_sync_job/<connector_sync_job_id>`

[[delete-connector-sync-job-api-prereq]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To sync data using connectors, it's essential to have the Elastic connectors service running.

[[delete-connector-sync-job-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<connector_sync_job_id>`::
(Required, string)

[[delete-connector-sync-job-api-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`400`::
The `connector_sync_job_id` was not provided.

`404`::
No connector sync job matching `connector_sync_job_id` could be found.

[[delete-connector-sync-job-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example deletes the connector sync job with ID `my-connector-sync-job-id`:

[source,console]
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DELETE _connector/_sync_job/my-connector-sync-job-id
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// TEST[skip:there's no way to clean up after this code snippet, as we don't know the ids of sync jobs ahead of time]

[source,console-result]
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{
    "acknowledged": true
}
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