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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. OpenTelemetry
    3. Vector
    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. Grafana
    7. Alerts
  6. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources & collectors
    3. Dashboards
    4. Explorations
      1. Explorations API
      2. Exploration alerts API
      3. Exploration groups API
        1. List all exploration groups GET
        2. Get a single exploration group GET
        3. Create an exploration group POST
        4. Update an exploration group PATCH
        5. Remove an exploration group DELETE
        6. List explorations in a group GET
    5. Alerts API
    6. Connections API
    7. Query API ↗
    8. Usage API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Get a single exploration group

Retrieves a single exploration group by its ID.

GET https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups/{id}

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the exploration group.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns the exploration group.

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "456",
    "type": "exploration_group",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Production Monitoring",
      "created_at": "2026-02-20T10:00:00.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-02-23T14:30:00.000Z"
    }
  }
}
401

Invalid or missing authentication token.

404

An exploration group with the specified ID was not found.

Response body

{
  "errors": "Resource with the provided ID was not found"
}

Response attributes

id
string

The ID of the exploration group.

type
string

Always exploration_group.

attributes.name
string

The name of the exploration group.

attributes.created_at
string

When the exploration group was created, as an ISO 8601 date-time in UTC.

attributes.updated_at
string

When the exploration group was last updated, as an ISO 8601 date-time in UTC.

Example request

cURL
curl --request GET \
     --url "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups/456" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


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