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Delete a web frontend

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When you no longer need your frontend, you can delete it either via the Dynatrace web UI or via API.

Delete a frontend via UI

To delete a frontend via Dynatrace web UI

  1. Go to Experience Vitals Experience Vitals > Overview.
  2. Select Web to view all web frontends.
  3. Select the frontend you want to configure.
  4. On the Settings tab, select Open in Settings.
  5. Go to Collect and capture > General.
  6. In the Delete frontend section, select Delete frontend.
  7. In the opened modal, type the frontend.name of the frontend and select Delete to confirm.

Delete a frontend via API

Deletes the specified web or mobile frontend from your Dynatrace environment.

DELETESaaShttps://{your-environment-id}.apps.dynatrace.com/platform/rum/v1/frontends/{id}

You can also run this request with an OAuth2 client with rum:frontends:delete scope.

To learn how to obtain and use it, see OAuth clients.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionInRequired
idstring

Smartscape FRONTEND id.

pathRequired

Response

Response codes

CodeTypeDescription
204-

Frontend deleted.

400ErrorEnvelope

Bad request.

404ErrorEnvelope

Frontend not found.

4XXErrorEnvelope

Client error.

5XXErrorEnvelope

Server error.

Response body objects

The ErrorEnvelope object

ElementTypeDescription
errorError-

The Error object

ElementTypeDescription
codeinteger

The HTTP status code

constraintViolationsConstraintViolation[]

A list of constraint violations

messagestring

The error message

The ConstraintViolation object

A list of constraint violations

ElementTypeDescription
locationstring-
messagestring-
parameterLocationstring-
The element can hold these values
  • HEADER
  • PATH
  • PAYLOAD_BODY
  • QUERY
pathstring-

Response body JSON models

{
  "error": {
    "code": 1,
    "constraintViolations": [
      {
        "location": "string",
        "message": "string",
        "parameterLocation": "HEADER",
        "path": "string"
      }
    ],
    "message": "string"
  }
}

JSON models

ErrorEnvelope

The ErrorEnvelope object

ElementTypeDescription
errorError-

The Error object

ElementTypeDescription
codeinteger

The HTTP status code

constraintViolationsConstraintViolation[]

A list of constraint violations

messagestring

The error message

The ConstraintViolation object

A list of constraint violations

ElementTypeDescription
locationstring-
messagestring-
parameterLocationstring-
The element can hold these values
  • HEADER
  • PATH
  • PAYLOAD_BODY
  • QUERY
pathstring-
Error

The Error object

ElementTypeDescription
codeinteger

The HTTP status code

constraintViolationsConstraintViolation[]

A list of constraint violations

messagestring

The error message

The ConstraintViolation object

A list of constraint violations

ElementTypeDescription
locationstring-
messagestring-
parameterLocationstring-
The element can hold these values
  • HEADER
  • PATH
  • PAYLOAD_BODY
  • QUERY
pathstring-
Related tags
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