diff --git a/private_gpt/components/node_store/node_store_component.py b/private_gpt/components/node_store/node_store_component.py
index c20f98c5..c039bf50 100644
--- a/private_gpt/components/node_store/node_store_component.py
+++ b/private_gpt/components/node_store/node_store_component.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import logging
+
 from injector import inject, singleton
 from llama_index.storage.docstore import BaseDocumentStore, SimpleDocumentStore
 from llama_index.storage.index_store import SimpleIndexStore
@@ -5,6 +7,8 @@ from llama_index.storage.index_store.types import BaseIndexStore
 
 from private_gpt.paths import local_data_path
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 @singleton
 class NodeStoreComponent:
@@ -18,6 +22,7 @@ class NodeStoreComponent:
                 persist_dir=str(local_data_path)
             )
         except FileNotFoundError:
+            logger.debug("Local index store not found, creating a new one")
             self.index_store = SimpleIndexStore()
 
         try:
@@ -25,4 +30,5 @@ class NodeStoreComponent:
                 persist_dir=str(local_data_path)
             )
         except FileNotFoundError:
+            logger.debug("Local document store not found, creating a new one")
             self.doc_store = SimpleDocumentStore()
diff --git a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_router.py b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_router.py
index dd49b5a8..5c156f46 100644
--- a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_router.py
+++ b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_router.py
@@ -47,3 +47,14 @@ def list_ingested() -> IngestResponse:
     service = root_injector.get(IngestService)
     ingested_documents = service.list_ingested()
     return IngestResponse(object="list", model="private-gpt", data=ingested_documents)
+
+
+@ingest_router.delete("/ingest/{doc_id}", tags=["Ingestion"])
+def delete_ingested(doc_id: str) -> None:
+    """Delete the specified ingested Document.
+
+    The `doc_id` can be obtained from the `GET /ingest/list` endpoint.
+    The document will be effectively deleted from your storage context.
+    """
+    service = root_injector.get(IngestService)
+    service.delete(doc_id)
diff --git a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
index 6a34e6fb..0026660c 100644
--- a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
+++ b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, AnyStr
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ from llama_index import (
     StorageContext,
     StringIterableReader,
     VectorStoreIndex,
+    load_index_from_storage,
 )
 from llama_index.node_parser import SentenceWindowNodeParser
 from llama_index.readers.file.base import DEFAULT_FILE_READER_CLS
@@ -25,6 +27,8 @@ from private_gpt.paths import local_data_path
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from llama_index.readers.base import BaseReader
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class IngestedDoc(BaseModel):
     object: str = Field(enum=["ingest.document"])
@@ -70,6 +74,7 @@ class IngestService:
         )
 
     def ingest(self, file_name: str, file_data: AnyStr | Path) -> list[IngestedDoc]:
+        logger.info("Ingesting file_name=%s", file_name)
         extension = Path(file_name).suffix
         reader_cls = DEFAULT_FILE_READER_CLS.get(extension)
         documents: list[Document]
@@ -100,7 +105,9 @@ class IngestService:
                     else:
                         path_to_tmp.write_text(str(file_data))
                     documents = reader.load_data(path_to_tmp)
-
+        logger.info(
+            "Transformed file=%s into count=%s documents", file_name, len(documents)
+        )
         for document in documents:
             document.metadata["file_name"] = file_name
         return self._save_docs(documents)
@@ -153,7 +160,26 @@ class IngestService:
                         doc_metadata=doc_metadata,
                     )
                 )
-            return ingested_docs
         except ValueError:
+            logger.warning("Got an exception when getting list of docs", exc_info=True)
             pass
+        logger.debug("Found count=%s ingested documents", len(ingested_docs))
         return ingested_docs
+
+    def delete(self, doc_id: str) -> None:
+        """Delete an ingested document.
+
+        :raises ValueError: if the document does not exist
+        """
+        logger.info(
+            "Deleting the ingested document=%s in the doc and index store", doc_id
+        )
+
+        # Load the index with store_nodes_override=True to be able to delete them
+        index = load_index_from_storage(self.storage_context, store_nodes_override=True)
+
+        # Delete the document from the index
+        index.delete_ref_doc(doc_id, delete_from_docstore=True)
+
+        # Save the index
+        self.storage_context.persist(persist_dir=local_data_path)