---
title: "Delete ACLs"
method: DELETE
path: "/clusters/{cluster_id}/acls"
tags: ["ACL (v3)"]
---

# Delete ACLs

`DELETE /clusters/{cluster_id}/acls`

[![Generally Available](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle%20Stage-Generally%20Available-%2345c6e8)](#section/Versioning/API-Lifecycle-Policy)

Deletes the list of ACLs that matches the search criteria.

## Query parameters

- `resource_type` 'UNKNOWN' | 'ANY' | 'TOPIC' | 'GROUP' | 'CLUSTER' | 'TRANSACTIONAL_ID' | 'DELEGATION_TOKEN', required
- `resource_name` string
- `pattern_type` string, required
- `principal` string
- `host` string
- `operation` string, required
- `permission` string, required

## Response `200`

The list of deleted ACLs.

- object
  - `data` AclData[], required
    - `kind` string, required
    - `metadata` ResourceMetadata, required
      - `self` string, required
      - `resource_name` string, nullable
    - `cluster_id` string, required
    - `resource_type` 'UNKNOWN' | 'ANY' | 'TOPIC' | 'GROUP' | 'CLUSTER' | 'TRANSACTIONAL_ID' | 'DELEGATION_TOKEN', required
    - `resource_name` string, required
    - `pattern_type` string, required
    - `principal` string, required
    - `host` string, required
    - `operation` string, required
    - `permission` string, required

## 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. Usually serves application/json content, although in some cases simple text/plain content can be returned.
- `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.

## Changes

- **2023-03-09** (v3) `70bf3fe3142f` — 4 breaking
  - the `query` request parameter `operation` became required
  - the `query` request parameter `pattern_type` became required
  - the `query` request parameter `permission` became required
  - the `query` request parameter `resource_type` became required
- **2022-03-22** (v3) `7500cc59fcff` — 22 breaking, 28 info
  - removed the enum value `ALL` from the `query` request parameter `operation`
  - removed the enum value `ALLOW` from the `query` request parameter `permission`
  - removed the enum value `ALTER` from the `query` request parameter `operation`
  - removed the enum value `ALTER_CONFIGS` from the `query` request parameter `operation`
  - …46 more
- **2022-03-22** (v3) `0b87d328c664` — 3 breaking, 22 warning, 28 info
  - the `query` request parameter `operation` was restricted to a list of enum values
  - the `query` request parameter `pattern_type` was restricted to a list of enum values
  - the `query` request parameter `permission` was restricted to a list of enum values
  - added the new `ALL` enum value to the `data/items/allOf[subschema #2]/operation` response property for the response status `200`
  - …49 more
- …earlier changes not shown

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/confluentinc/apis/rest-admin-api/changes/clusters/:cluster_id/acls/delete.md)

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