diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/elasticsearch_api/filter.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/elasticsearch_api/filter.rs
index ca3f524d2fe..71c62d82587 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/elasticsearch_api/filter.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/elasticsearch_api/filter.rs
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ pub(crate) fn elastic_delete_index_filter(
 ) -> impl Filter<Extract = (Vec<String>,), Error = Rejection> + Clone {
     warp::path!("_elastic" / String)
         .and_then(extract_index_id_patterns)
-        .and(warp::get())
+        .and(warp::delete())
 }
 
 // No support for any query parameters for now.
diff --git a/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/0024-delete_indices.yaml b/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/0024-delete_indices.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..02f51acc0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/0024-delete_indices.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+method: POST
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: indexes/
+json:
+  version: "0.7"
+  index_id: test_index1
+  doc_mapping:
+    mode: dynamic
+sleep_after: 3
+---
+method: POST
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: indexes/
+json:
+  version: "0.7"
+  index_id: test_index2
+  doc_mapping:
+    mode: dynamic
+sleep_after: 3
+---
+method: DELETE
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: _elastic/test_index1,does_not_exist
+status_code: 404
+---
+method: DELETE
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: _elastic/test_index1,test_index2
+status_code: 200
diff --git a/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/_teardown.quickwit.yaml b/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/_teardown.quickwit.yaml
index 4b1a0e2a202..746e2160601 100644
--- a/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/_teardown.quickwit.yaml
+++ b/quickwit/rest-api-tests/scenarii/es_compatibility/_teardown.quickwit.yaml
@@ -7,3 +7,18 @@ endpoint: indexes/gharchive
 method: DELETE
 api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
 endpoint: indexes/empty_index
+---
+method: DELETE
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: indexes/test_index1
+status_code: null
+--- # Cleanup
+method: DELETE
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: indexes/test_index2
+status_code: null
+--- # Cleanup
+method: DELETE
+api_root: http://localhost:7280/api/v1/
+endpoint: indexes/test_index1
+status_code: null