Delete all Kibana saved objects. This is useful if you're developing beats modules or just want to clear out some cruft. Works with 7.x API.

delete_kibana_saved_objects.bash

#!/bin/bash

# From the docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-get.html#saved-objects-api-get-params
# Types can be: visualization, dashboard, search, index-pattern, config, timelion-sheet
# You can also have a map type, which isn't in the docs linked above

export KIBANA_API_URL='http://elastic:[email protected]:5601'
export OBJECTS=$(curl "${KIBANA_API_URL}/api/saved_objects/_find?fields=id&type=index-pattern&type=visualization&type=dashboard&type=search&type=index-pattern&type=timelion-sheet&type=map&per_page=1000" | jq -rc '.saved_objects[] | {"type": .type, "id": .id } | @base64')

# Loops through the base64-encoded JSON objects
for item in ${OBJECTS};
do
  TYPE=$(echo "${item}" | base64 -d | jq -r '.type')
  ID=$(echo "${item}" | base64 -d | jq -r '.id')

  echo "Deleting ${TYPE} with ID ${ID}"
  curl -s -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -XDELETE "${KIBANA_API_URL}/api/saved_objects/${TYPE}/${ID}"

done