---
title: "Bulk delete datastore items"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/v2/actions-datastores/{datastore_id}/items/bulk"
tags: ["Actions Datastores"]
---

# Bulk delete datastore items

`DELETE /api/v2/actions-datastores/{datastore_id}/items/bulk`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.datadoghq.com`
- URL: `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/actions-datastores/{datastore_id}/items/bulk`
- Auth: API key in header `DD-API-KEY` and API key in header `DD-APPLICATION-KEY`

Deletes multiple items from a datastore by their keys in a single operation.

## Path parameters

- `datastore_id` string, required

## Request body

- BulkDeleteAppsDatastoreItemsRequest: Request to delete items from a datastore.
  - `data` BulkDeleteAppsDatastoreItemsRequestData: Data wrapper containing the data needed to delete items from a datastore.
    - `attributes` BulkDeleteAppsDatastoreItemsRequestDataAttributes: Attributes of request data to delete items from a datastore.
      - `item_keys` string[]: List of primary keys identifying items to delete from datastore. Up to 100 items can be deleted in a single request.
    - `id` string: ID for the datastore of the items to delete.
    - `type` 'items', required: Items resource type.

## Response `200`

OK

- DeleteAppsDatastoreItemResponseArray: The definition of `DeleteAppsDatastoreItemResponseArray` object.
  - `data` DeleteAppsDatastoreItemResponseData[], required: The `DeleteAppsDatastoreItemResponseArray` `data`.
    - `id` string: The unique identifier of the item that was deleted.
    - `type` 'items', required: The resource type for datastore items.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `404`: Not Found
- `429`: Too many requests
- `500`: Internal Server Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/datadog/apis/datadog-api-v2-collection.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/datadog/apis/datadog-api-v2-collection/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/datadog/apis/datadog-api-v2-collection/revisions/da68bf029e4c?raw)