Flush Cache API

Introduced 1.0

Flushes the Security plugin user, authentication, and authorization cache.

DELETE is the only supported method. GET, PUT, and POST requests to _plugins/_security/api/cache return a 405 error that names DELETE as the allowed method.

Endpoints

DELETE /_plugins/_security/api/cache

Example request

DELETE _plugins/_security/api/cache

Example response

{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": "Cache flushed successfully."
}

Response body fields

The response body is a JSON object with the following fields.