---
title: "Delete root jobs and related items"
method: POST
path: "/operations-manager/jobs/delete"
tags: ["Operations Manager"]
deprecated: true
---

# Delete root jobs and related items

`POST /operations-manager/jobs/delete`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://example.itential.io`
- URL: `https://example.itential.io/operations-manager/jobs/delete`
- Auth: none declared

> **Deprecated.**

Only succeeds on completed or cancelled root jobs. Ignores jobs that don't fit that criteria. Recursively deletes children, tasks, job data, job history, and large files.

## Request body

- object
  - `jobIds` OperationsManagerCommonObjectIdLikeString[]

## Response `200`

The result of the delete jobs operation.

- OperationsManagerDeleteJobsResponse200: A success response from an API method
  - `message` string, required: A human-readable message summarizing the result of the operation
  - `data` OperationsManagerJobsDeletePostResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaDataItems[], required: Any successfully retrieved information related to the request.
  - `metadata` object, required: Any structured, wordy or machine-readable information related to the result of the operation. For success responses, this may contain information like pagination values from a search operation.

## Other responses

- `500`: Error response from API

## Changes

- **2026-10-31** `2095cc90e583`: 2 info
  - api tag `Operations Manager` added
  - api tag `operationsManager` removed

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/itential/apis/itential-2/changes/operations-manager/jobs/delete/post.md)

---

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