altis.analytics.index_maintenance cron can cause 413 error in ES

[joehoyle]

My site had not cleaned up ES indexes in months, so I had several hundred indexes. Running the maintenance cron then failed everytime:

wp --url=https://www.altis-dxp.com cron event run altis.analytics.index_maintenance
Warning: Error in ElasticSearch request:  (413) in /usr/src/app/vendor/altis/cloud/inc/namespace.php on line 347
Warning: Analytics: ElasticSearch index deletion failed:
 in /usr/src/app/vendor/altis/aws-analytics/inc/namespace.php on line 328
Executed the cron event 'altis.analytics.index_maintenance' in 0.234s.

I think this is because the DELETE query is perhaps passing too many indexes and exceeding the request limit for ES. Instead I had to manually delete them all like http DELETE 'http://localhost:9200/analytics-2020-09*' (ES supports delete by wildcard)