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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
      1. Dashboards API
      2. Charts API
      3. Dashboard sections API
      4. Dashboard alerts API
      5. Dashboard groups API
        1. List all dashboard groups GET
        2. Get a single dashboard group GET
        3. Create a dashboard group POST
        4. Update a dashboard group PATCH
        5. Remove a dashboard group DELETE
        6. List dashboards in a group GET
    4. Explorations
    5. Alerts API
    6. Connections API
    7. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Update a dashboard group

Updates an existing dashboard group by its ID.

PATCH https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboard-groups/{id}

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the dashboard group to update.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Body parameters

name
required string

A new name for the dashboard group.

200

The dashboard group was updated successfully.

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": 456,
    "type": "dashboard_group",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Updated Group Name",
      "created_at": "2026-02-20T10:00:00Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-02-24T12:00:00Z"
    }
  }
}
404

A dashboard group with the specified ID was not found.

Example Request

cURL
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboard-groups/456 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "name": "Updated Group Name"
  }'


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