How to delete old unused fields from fields panel via ELS, GL or Mongo?

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Dear community,

I have a bunch of old fields from testing extractors which I want to delete from the fields panel:

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Also I saw the previous post How to delete old unused fields from fields panel? but no one answered the question at all.
Do I need to delete the entire IndexSet where the extractor is running and generating those fields? In the GL API I can only see the endpoint “System/Fields: Get list of message fields that exist.”

Can anyone tell me how to delete a single field without deleting anything?

Best regards and thank you.
Hollowdew

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@hollowdew
Hello,
I personally never had to delete fields before, but I did a quick google search and found this.

Maybe that will give you more insight.
Hope that helps

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Hello gsmith,

thank you very much for your help.
I will check this out today and let you know if this is working as expected.

Best regards
Hollowdew

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The fields will age out based on your retention strategy if they’re not being used anymore.

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