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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 all exploration groups

Retrieves a paginated list of your team's exploration groups.

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

Query parameters

page
integer

Page number for pagination.

per_page
integer

Number of items per page (max 250).

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns a paginated list of exploration groups.

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"
      }
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "first": "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups?page=1",
    "last": "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups?page=2",
    "prev": null,
    "next": "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/exploration-groups?page=2"
  }
}
401

Invalid or missing authentication token.

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.

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" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


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