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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 API
    3. Source groups API
    4. Metrics API
    5. Dashboards API
    6. Explorations API
    7. 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
    8. Alerts API
    9. Connections API
    10. Collectors API
    11. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Update an exploration group

Updates an existing exploration group by its ID.

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

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the exploration group to update.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Body parameters

name
required string

A new name for the exploration group.

200

The exploration group was updated successfully.

Response body

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

An exploration group with the specified ID was not found.

Example Request

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


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