---
title: "Delete an incident"
method: DELETE
path: "/incidents/{incident}"
tags: ["Incidents"]
---

# Delete an incident

`DELETE /incidents/{incident}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.spectate.net/v1`
- URL: `https://api.spectate.net/v1/incidents/{incident}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Deletes it for good, open or resolved, with its updates, role assignments and postmortem.
Nothing else goes with it: the alert that opened it keeps firing or stays resolved, status
page incidents published from it stay on their pages, and its Slack channel isn't archived.

## Path parameters

- `incident` string, uuid, required

## Response `204`

No content

## Other responses

- `401`: `UNAUTHENTICATED`: no token was sent. `INVALID_TOKEN`: the token is unknown or revoked. `TOKEN_EXPIRED`: the token has expired.
- `403`: `FORBIDDEN`: the token lacks an ability this endpoint requires (listed in `details.required_abilities`). `TEAM_PENDING_DELETION`: the team is scheduled for deletion. `TEAM_SUSPENDED`: Spectate suspended the team.
- `404`: `RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND`: there is no such resource in this team.
- `429`: `RATE_LIMITED`: too many requests for this token. Wait for the number of seconds in `Retry-After`.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/spectate/apis/spectate-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/spectate/apis/spectate-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/spectate/apis/spectate-api/revisions/9b1a233997de?raw)