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Cancel an SLO evaluation

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  • Published Oct 13, 2026

Cancel an SLO evaluation in Dynatrace with the SLO API by evaluation token and return the result if it already finished.

POSTSaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.apps.dynatrace.com/platform/slo/v1/slos/evaluation:cancel

Overview

You provide the evaluation-token query parameter to cancel the evaluation. The response returns an SLO evaluation result if the evaluation already finished, otherwise it discards it.

Authentication

To execute this request, you need a platform token or OAuth access token with slo:slos:read scope. To learn how to obtain and use it, see Tokens and authentication.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
evaluation-tokenstring-queryRequired

Response

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
200MetadataResponse

SLO evaluation result

202-

The SLO evaluation was still running and is now cancelled.

400--
401--
403--
410--
429--
5XX--

Response body objects

The MetadataResponse object

ElementTypeDescription
definitionSloConfig

Configuration for a service-level objective. Exactly one of sliReference or customSli must be provided. Providing both or neither results in a 400 Bad Request.

The Slo object

The SloConfig object

Configuration for a service-level objective. Exactly one of sliReference or customSli must be provided. Providing both or neither results in a 400 Bad Request.

ElementTypeDescription
namestring-
descriptionstring-
sliReferenceSliReference-
customSliCustomSli-
criteriaCriteria[]-
tagsstring[]

A list of tags for this SLO. Tags can be plain strings (e.g. myTag) or key-value pairs separated by a colon (e.g. Stage:DEV). To include a literal colon in a tag, escape it with a backslash (e.g. key\:value).

externalIdstring

An optional user-provided external identifier for the SLO. Must be unique across all SLOs.

Response body JSON models

{
"definition": {
"id": "string",
"version": "string"
}
}
Related tags
Platform APIDynatrace PlatformApplication Observability