# Clear the API key cache

**POST /_security/api_key/{ids}/_clear_cache**

Evict a subset of all entries from the API key cache.
The cache is also automatically cleared on state changes of the security index.

## Required authorization

* Cluster privileges: `manage_security`



## Servers
- http://api.example.com: http://api.example.com ()


## Authentication methods
- Api key auth
- Basic auth
- Bearer auth


## Parameters

### Path parameters
- **ids** (string | array[string])
  Comma-separated list of API key IDs to evict from the API key cache.
  To evict all API keys, use `*`.
  Does not support other wildcard patterns.



## Responses
### 200


#### Body: application/json (object)
- **_nodes** (object)

- **cluster_name** (string)

- **nodes** (object)



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