---
title: "Delete the cluster link"
method: DELETE
path: "/kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/links/{link_name}"
tags: ["Cluster Linking (v3)"]
---

# Delete the cluster link

`DELETE /kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/links/{link_name}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://pkc-00000.region.provider.confluent.cloud`
- URL: `https://pkc-00000.region.provider.confluent.cloud/kafka/v3/clusters/{cluster_id}/links/{link_name}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - OAuth 2
    - Client credentials
    - Token URL: `https://api.confluent.cloud/sts/v1/oauth2/token`

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## Query parameters

- `force` boolean
- `validate_only` boolean

## Response `200`

Operation succeeded, no content in the response

## Other responses

- `400`: Indicates a bad request error. It could be caused by an unexpected request body format or other forms of request validation failure.
- `401`: Indicates a client authentication error. Kafka authentication failures will contain error code 40101 in the response body.
- `429`: Indicates that a rate limit threshold has been reached, and the client should retry again later.
- `5XX`: A server-side problem that might not be addressable from the client side. Retriable Kafka errors will contain error code 50003 in the response body.

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