---
title: "Delete Storage Connection"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/organizations/connections/{connection_identifier}"
tags: ["Organization Connections"]
---

# Delete Storage Connection

`DELETE /v1/organizations/connections/{connection_identifier}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mixpeek.com`
- URL: `https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/organizations/connections/{connection_identifier}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Soft-delete a connection (mark archived).

Permanently retires a connection by marking it as ARCHIVED. The connection
cannot be reactivated after deletion. Credentials are preserved for audit
purposes but the connection is no longer usable.

**Example:**
```bash
curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8000/v1/organizations/connections/conn_abc123" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## Path parameters

- `connection_identifier` string, required: Connection identifier - either connection ID (conn_...) or name. The system will automatically resolve names to IDs.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `500`: Internal Server Error
- `503`: Service Unavailable

## Changes

- **2026-10-09** `61a175e8eb9a`: 1 warning, 5 info
  - removed the optional property `detail` from the response with the `422` status
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - added the non-success response with the status `503`
  - added the optional property `success` to the response with the `422` status
  - …2 more
- **2026-08-09** `5d4c905106b4`: 1 info
  - the endpoint scheme security `BearerAuth` was added to the API

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/mixpeek/apis/mixpeek-api/changes/v1/organizations/connections/:connection_identifier/delete.md)

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