---
title: "Delete service account"
method: DELETE
path: "/serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}"
tags: ["service_accounts"]
---

# Delete service account

`DELETE /serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/serviceaccounts/{serviceAccountId}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - API key in header `Authorization`

Required permissions (See note in the [introduction](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/#service-account-api) for an explanation):
action: `serviceaccounts:delete` scope: `serviceaccounts:id:1` (single service account)

## Path parameters

- `serviceAccountId` integer, required

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `404`: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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