diff --git a/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/components_API.json b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/components_API.json
index 5fbdac483403..eb6e4ba00c9f 100644
--- a/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/components_API.json
+++ b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/components_API.json
@@ -243,6 +243,78 @@
           }
         }
       }
+    },
+    "/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/microsoft.insights/components/{resourceName}/purge": {
+      "post": {
+        "description": "Purges data in an Application Insights component by a set of user-defined filters.",
+        "operationId": "Components_Purge",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ResourceGroupNameParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ApiVersionParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/SubscriptionIdParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ResourceNameParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ComponentPurgeParameter"
+          }         
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "202": {
+            "description": "Accepted request for purging an Application Insights component.",
+            "schema": {
+              "$ref": "#/definitions/ComponentPurgeResponse"
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "x-ms-examples": {
+          "ComponentPurge": {
+            "$ref": "./examples/ComponentsPurge.json"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/microsoft.insights/components/{resourceName}/operations/{purgeId}": {
+      "get": {
+        "description": "Gets the status of a previously submitted purge using the id returned from the original purge request.",
+        "operationId": "Components_GetPurgeStatus",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ResourceGroupNameParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ApiVersionParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/SubscriptionIdParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ResourceNameParameter"
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/parameters/ComponentPurgeIdParameter"
+          }         
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "Returns status of purge operation in body of response. e.g.:  running, completed.",
+            "schema": {
+              "$ref": "#/definitions/ComponentPurgeStatusResponse"
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "x-ms-examples": {
+          "ComponentPurgeStatus": {
+            "$ref": "./examples/ComponentsPurgeStatus.json"
+          }
+        }
+      }
     }
   },
   "definitions": {
@@ -434,6 +506,71 @@
           "description": "The URI to get the next set of Application Insights component defintions if too many components where returned in the result set."
         }
       }
+    },
+    "ComponentPurgeBody": {
+      "description": "Describes the body of a purge request for an App Insights component",
+      "required": [
+        "table",
+        "filters"
+      ],
+      "properties": {
+        "table": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "Table from which to purge data."
+        },
+        "filters": {
+          "type": "array",
+          "description": "The set of columns and filters (queries) to run over them to purge the resulting data.",
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/ComponentPurgeBodyFilters"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "ComponentPurgeBodyFilters": {
+      "description": "User-defined filters to return data which will be purged from the table.",
+      "properties": {
+        "column": {
+          "description": "The column of the table over which the given query should run",
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "filter": {
+          "description": "A query to to run over the provided table and column to purge the corresponding data.",
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "ComponentPurgeResponse": {
+      "description": "Response containing operationId for a specific purge action.",
+      "properties": {
+        "operationId": {
+          "description": "Id to use when querying for status for a particular purge operation.",
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "operationId"
+      ]
+    },
+    "ComponentPurgeStatusResponse": {
+      "description": "Response containing status for a specific purge operation.",
+      "properties": {
+        "status": {
+          "description": "Status of the operation represented by the requested Id.",
+          "type": "string",
+          "enum": [
+            "Pending",
+            "Completed"
+          ],
+          "x-ms-enum": {
+            "name": "PurgeState",
+            "modelAsString": true
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "status"
+      ]
     }
   },
   "parameters": {
@@ -466,6 +603,22 @@
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The name of the Application Insights component resource.",
       "x-ms-parameter-location": "method"
+    }, 
+    "ComponentPurgeParameter": {
+      "name": "body",
+      "in": "body",
+      "description": "Describes the body of a request to purge data in a single table of an Application Insights component",
+      "required": true,
+      "schema": {
+        "$ref": "#/definitions/ComponentPurgeBody"
+      }
+    },
+    "ComponentPurgeIdParameter": {
+      "name": "purgeId",
+      "in": "path",
+      "required": true,
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "In a purge status request, this is the Id of the operation the status of which is returned."
     }
   }
 }
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diff --git a/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurge.json b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurge.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..599cea6afb76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurge.json
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+    "parameters": {
+        "api-version": "2015-05-01",
+        "subscriptionId": "subid",
+        "resourceGroupName": "my-resource-group",
+        "resourceName": "my-component",
+        "body": {
+            "table": "requests",
+            "filters": [
+                {
+                    "column": "duration",
+                    "filter": ">1000"
+                },
+                {
+                    "column": "timestamp",
+                    "filter": ">= datetime(2017-09-01T00:00:00.000Z)"
+                },
+                {
+                    "column": "application_Version",
+                    "filter": "in ('Draft_master_20171018.2', 'Draft_master_2017024.1')"
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    },
+    "responses": {
+        "202": {
+            "body": {
+                "operationId": "7d7cf277-9113-4ab3-8359-d0364b74d01d"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+        
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diff --git a/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurgeStatus.json b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurgeStatus.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c28fdc13744d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specification/applicationinsights/resource-manager/microsoft.insights/stable/2015-05-01/examples/ComponentsPurgeStatus.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+    "parameters": {
+        "api-version": "2015-05-01",
+        "subscriptionId": "subid",
+        "resourceGroupName": "my-resource-group",
+        "resourceName": "my-component",
+        "purgeId": "6779dd32-272a-45d3-a9b8-84d7f47abfb7"
+    },
+    "responses": {
+        "200": {
+            "body": {
+                "status": "Completed"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+        
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