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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
      1. List all explorations GET
      2. Get a single exploration GET
      3. Create an exploration POST
      4. Update an exploration PATCH
      5. Remove an exploration DELETE
    7. Exploration groups API
    8. Alerts API
    9. Connections API
    10. Collectors API
    11. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Remove an exploration

Permanently deletes an exploration by its ID.

Deleting an exploration also permanently deletes its associated chart, queries, and any configured alerts. This action cannot be undone.

DELETE https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/explorations/{id}

URL parameters

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the exploration to delete.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

204

The exploration was successfully deleted. No content is returned.

401

Invalid or missing authentication token.

404

An exploration with the specified ID was not found.

Example Request

cURL
curl --request DELETE \
     --url "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/explorations/123" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


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