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  3. Monitoring
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    1. Get started with on-call
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    1. Working with incidents
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  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
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  9. API
    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
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  12. Integrations API
    1. New Relic Integrations
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  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata
      1. List all existing metadata GET
      2. Get a single metadata record GET
      3. Create a new metadata record POST
      4. Update an existing metadata record PATCH
      5. Delete an existing metadata record DELETE
      6. Metadata API response params

Delete an existing metadata record

Permanently deletes a metadata record.

DELETE https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/metadata/{metadata_id}

URL parameters

metadata_id
required string

The ID of metadata you want to update

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TEAM_TOKEN

204

Returns empty body

Example cURL

Example
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/metadata/123456 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TEAM_TOKEN"

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