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  1. Welcome to Telemetry 👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Wide events vs. metrics
  4. Ingesting data
    1. Better Stack collector
    2. Vector
    3. OpenTelemetry
    4. Ingesting via HTTP API
    5. Ingesting metrics
    6. Ingesting logs
    7. Migrating to Better Stack
  5. Using the product
    1. AI SRE ↗
    2. MCP server ↗
    3. Transforming ingested data
    4. Querying data
    5. Tracing
    6. Alerts
  6. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources & collectors
    3. Dashboards
    4. Explorations
    5. Alerts API
      1. List all alerts GET
      2. Get a single alert GET
      3. Update an alert PATCH
      4. Remove an alert DELETE
      5. Create a dashboard alert ↗
      6. Create an exploration alert ↗
    6. Connections API
    7. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Remove an alert

Permanently deletes an alert by its ID.

DELETE https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/alerts/{id}

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the alert to delete.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

204

The alert was successfully deleted. No content is returned.

404

The specified alert was not found.

Example request

cURL
curl --request DELETE \
     --url "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/alerts/789" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


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