title: How to delete all documents from an elasticsearch index
body: <p>I am trying to delete all document from my index and getting the following error on CURL. No handler found for uri [/logstash-2016.03.11/logevent/] and method [DELETE]</p>
  
  <p>Here is my delete command on Windows command.</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.03.11/logevent/"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can anybody help?</p>