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Remove a chart comment

Permanently removes a comment from a chart.

DELETE https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/{dashboard_id}/charts/{chart_id}/comments/{id}

URL parameters

dashboard_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the dashboard.

chart_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the chart.

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the comment to remove.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

204

The comment was successfully removed. No content is returned.

403

The comment was not created through this API and can only be removed by whoever wrote it.

404

A comment with the specified ID was not found on this chart.

Example request

cURL
curl --request DELETE \
     --url "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/1234/charts/18718/comments/1441" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


You can remove a comment created through this API, meaning one whose api_authored attribute is true. With an OAuth token you can also remove that team member's own comments. Everything else returns 403, including comments written by other team members and the incident comments synced onto the chart from Uptime.

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