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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

List explorations in a group

Retrieves a paginated list of explorations within a specific group.

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

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the exploration group.

Query parameters

page
integer

Page number for pagination.

per_page
integer

Number of items per page (max 250).

query
string

Search for explorations by name within the group.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns a paginated list of the explorations in the group.

Response body

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "123",
      "type": "exploration",
      "attributes": {
        "name": "Error Rate Analysis",
        "date_range_from": "now-3h",
        "date_range_to": "now",
        "exploration_group_id": 456,
        "created_at": "2026-02-20T10:00:00.000Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-02-23T14:30:00.000Z"
      }
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "first": "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups/456/explorations?page=1",
    "last": "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups/456/explorations?page=1",
    "prev": null,
    "next": null
  }
}
404

An exploration group with the specified ID was not found.

Response attributes

id
string

The ID of the exploration.

type
string

Always exploration.

attributes.name
string

The name of the exploration, generated from its query when it still has the default name.

attributes.date_range_from
string

The start of the exploration's time range, for example now-3h.

attributes.date_range_to
string

The end of the exploration's time range, for example now.

attributes.exploration_group_id
integer or null

The ID of the exploration group, or null when the exploration isn't in a group.

attributes.created_at
string

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

attributes.updated_at
string

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

pagination.first
string

The URL of the first page. Read more about pagination.

pagination.last
string

The URL of the last page.

pagination.prev
string or null

The URL of the previous page, or null on the first page.

pagination.next
string or null

The URL of the next page, or null on the last page.

Example request

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


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