[[delete-geoip-database-api]]
=== Delete geoip database configuration  API
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<titleabbrev>Delete geoip database configuration</titleabbrev>
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Deletes a geoip database configuration.

[source,console]
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DELETE /_ingest/geoip/database/my-database-id
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// TEST[skip:we don't want to leak the enterprise-geoip-downloader task, which touching these APIs would cause. Therefore, skip this test.]


[[delete-geoip-database-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_ingest/geoip/database/<database>`

[[delete-geoip-database-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the
`manage` <<privileges-list-cluster,cluster privilege>> to use this API.

[[delete-geoip-database-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<database>`::
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--
(Required, string) Database configuration ID used to limit the request.

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[[delete-geoip-database-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{es-ref-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=timeoutparms]


[[delete-geoip-database-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}


[[delete-geoip-database-api-specific-ex]]
===== Delete a specific geoip database configuration

[source,console]
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DELETE /_ingest/geoip/database/example-database-id
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// TEST[skip:we don't want to leak the enterprise-geoip-downloader task, which touching these APIs would cause. Therefore, skip this test.]