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  1. Welcome to Uptime 👋
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started
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    3. Connecting external calendars
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    1. Get started
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  7. Uptime API
    1. Getting an API token
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    3. Heartbeats
    4. On-call & incidents
      1. On-call schedule
        1. List on-call schedules GET
        2. Get on-call schedule GET
        3. Create on-call schedule POST
        4. Update on-call schedule PATCH
        5. Remove on-call schedule DELETE
        6. Response attributes
      2. On-call schedule events
      3. On-call schedule rotations
      4. Escalation policies
      5. Escalation policy groups
      6. Severities
      7. Severity groups
      8. Incidents
      9. Comments
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    6. Metadata
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Remove on-call schedule

Permanently deletes an existing on-call schedule.

DELETE https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/on-calls/{schedule_id}

URL parameters

schedule_id
required string

The ID of the schedule you want to delete

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

204

Returns empty body

Example cURL

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curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/on-calls/56 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

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