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### From a Log Search
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#### Delete audit events
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The Audit Event Index has detailed JSON logs. To search for audit events for data deletion logs, use metadata field `_sourceCategory=deletionRule`. For example, to search for data deletion logs you would use the query:
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(_index=sumologic_audit_events) AND _sourceCategory=deletionRule
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#### Delete system events
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1. In the **Log Search**, search for the required logs that needs to be deleted.
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1. Click the cog icon, then in the dropdown, select **Create Deletion Request**.<br/><img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/get-started-search/deletion-request.png')} alt="deletion request" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="400"/>
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1. In the popup window, enter a **Name** and **Reason** for your data deletion request, then click **Create Request**.
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#### Delete events
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The System Event Index has detailed JSON logs. To search for system events for data deletion logs, use metadata field `_sourceCategory=deletionRule`. For example, to search for data deletion logs you would use the query:
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The Audit Event Index and System Event Index has detailed JSON logs. To search for audit events or system events for data deletion logs, use metadata field `_sourceCategory=deletionRule`.
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```
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(_index=sumologic_system_events) AND _sourceCategory=deletionRule
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```sql
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(_index=sumologic_*_events) AND _sourceCategory=deletionRule
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| json field=_raw "resourceIdentity.name" as name nodrop
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| json field=_raw "resourceIdentity.id" as id nodrop
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| json field=_raw "eventName"
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| json field=_raw "operator.interface" as operator nodrop
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| json field=_raw "operator.email" as email nodrop
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| count by _messagetime,eventname,name,id,operator,email,_view
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| sort _messagetime asc
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1. In the **Log Search**, search for the required logs that needs to be deleted.
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1. Click the cog icon, then in the dropdown, select **Create Deletion Request**.<br/><img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/get-started-search/deletion-request.png')} alt="deletion request" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="400"/>
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1. In the popup window, enter a **Name** and **Reason** for your data deletion request, then click **Create Request**.
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The events `DeletionRuleCreated` and `DeletionRuleStateUpdated` are contained in the `sumologic_audit_events` index and `DeletionRuleProcessingConcluded` is in the `sumologic_system_events` index.
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## Cancel a deletion request
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### Supported operators
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Currently, we only support [`as`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/as), [`concat`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/concat), [`contains`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/contains), [`decToHex`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/dectohex), [`floor`](/docs/search/search-query-language/math-expressions/floor), [`if`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/if), [`in`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/in), [`lookup`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/lookup), [`toLower`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/tolowercase-touppercase), [`matches`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/matches), [`parse`](/docs/search/search-query-language/parse-operators), [`toUpper`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/tolowercase-touppercase), and [`where`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/where) search query operators.
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Currently, we only support [`as`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/as), [`concat`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/concat), [`contains`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/contains), [`decToHex`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/dectohex), [`floor`](/docs/search/search-query-language/math-expressions/floor), [`if`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/if), [`in`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/in), [`lookup`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/lookup), [`toLower`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/tolowercase-touppercase), [`matches`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/matches), [`parse`](/docs/search/search-query-language/parse-operators), [`toUpper`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/tolowercase-touppercase), and [`where`](/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/where) search query operators.

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