Timeseries API v1 - DELETE a custom metric

Deletes the specified custom metric. If you delete a metric definition, you lose all of that metric's data, so be careful with deletes.

Built-in metrics can't be deleted.

DELETE
  • Managed https://{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}/api/v1/timeseries/{timeseriesIdentifier}
  • SaaS https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/timeseries/{timeseriesIdentifier}

Authentication

To execute this request, you need the Access problem and event feed, metrics, and topology (DataExport) permission assigned to your API token. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

Parameter Type Description In Required
timeseriesIdentifier string

The ID of the metric to delete.

 path required

Response

Response codes

Code Description
204

Success. The custom metric has been deleted.

Response body

A successful request doesn't return any content.

Example

In this example, the request deletes the custom:firewall.connections.dropped custom metric.

The API token is passed in the Authorization header.

Curl

curl -X DELETE \
  https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/timeseries/custom:firewall.connections.dropped \
  -H 'Authorization: Api-Token abcdefjhij1234567890'

Request URL

https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/timeseries/custom:firewall.connections.dropped

Response code

204