Delete Knowledge Base

Prerequisites

Get an API key and a workspace ID, and configure authentication first. See API overview and Authentication.

Endpoint

POST /api/v1/indices/rag/index/delete Permanently delete a Knowledge Base. Deleting the Knowledge Base also removes every document, chunk, and index it contains, with no way to recover them. Confirm the operation before calling.

This operation is irreversible. Deleting the Knowledge Base also removes every document, chunk, and index it contains, with no way to recover them. Confirm nothing depends on it before calling.

Request body

Field	Required	Type	Description
`index_id`	Yes	string	ID of the Knowledge Base to delete, that is, the `data.pipelineId` returned by Create Knowledge Base and Import.

Request example

curl -X POST "$BASE_URL/api/v1/indices/rag/index/delete" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BAILIAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"index_id": "your-kb-id"}'

BASE_URL is https://{workspace_id}.cn-beijing.maas.aliyuncs.com ({workspace_id} is the workspace ID), and BAILIAN_API_KEY is your Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API key.

Response example

Returns 200 on success.

{
  "code": "Success",
  "status_code": 200,
  "success": true,
  "message": "success",
  "request_id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "status": "SUCCESS"
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`code`	string	Response code. `Success` when successful.
`status_code`	integer	HTTP status code.
`success`	boolean	Whether the operation succeeded.
`message`	string	Response message. `success` when successful.
`request_id`	string	Unique request identifier. Provide this ID when troubleshooting.
`status`	string	Request status. `SUCCESS` when successful.

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