Explore documentation
  1. Welcome to Telemetry👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Ingesting data
    1. Vector (Recommended)
    2. OpenTelemetry
    3. Ingesting via HTTP API
    4. Ingesting metrics
    5. Ingesting logs
    6. Migrating to Better Stack
  4. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources
      1. Sources API
      2. Source groups API
        1. List all source groups GET
        2. Get a single source group GET
        3. Create a source group GET
        4. Update a source group PATCH
        5. Remove a source group DELETE
    3. Metrics API
    4. Query API
  5. Using the product
    1. Wide events vs. time series
    2. Transforming ingested data
    3. Querying data
    4. Alerts

Get a single source group

Get a single source group by its ID.

GET https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v1/source-groups/{source_group_id}

URL parameters

id
required string

The ID of the source group you want to get

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "95251342",
    "type": "source_group",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Backend sources",
      "sort_index": null,
      "created_at": "2025-06-30T17:43:12.192Z",
      "updated_at": "2020-06-30T17:43:12.192Z",
      "team_name": "Test team"
    }
  }
}
404

Your team doesn't have a source group with this ID

Response body

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

Example cURL

Example
curl --request GET \
  --url https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v1/source-groups/123 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

Previous article

List all source groups

Next article

Create a source group