Documentation Experience Platform Destinations Guide

Delete a destination server configuration

Last update: April 2, 2025

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This page exemplifies the API request and payload that you can use to delete an existing destination server configuration, using the /authoring/destination-servers API endpoint.

For a detailed description of the capabilities that you can delete through this endpoint, read the following articles:

IMPORTANT

All parameter names and values supported by Destination SDK are case sensitive. To avoid case sensitivity errors, please use the parameters names and values exactly as shown in the documentation.

Getting started with destination server API operations

Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for important information that you need to know in order to successfully make calls to the API, including how to obtain the required destination authoring permission and required headers.

Delete a destination server configuration

You can delete an existing destination server configuration by making a DELETE request to the /authoring/destination-servers endpoint with the {INSTANCE_ID}of the destination server configuration that you want to delete.

TIP

API endpoint: platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/destination-servers

To obtain an existing destination server configuration and its corresponding {INSTANCE_ID}, see the article about retrieving a destination server configuration.

API format

DELETE /authoring/destination-servers/{INSTANCE_ID}

Parameter

Description

{INSTANCE_ID}

The ID of the destination server configuration you want to delete.

Request

curl -X DELETE https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/destination-servers/{INSTANCE_ID} \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 along with an empty HTTP response.

API error handling

Destination SDK API endpoints follow the general Experience Platform API error message principles. Refer to API status codes and request header errors in the Experience Platform troubleshooting guide.

Next steps

After reading this document, you now know how to delete an existing destination server through the Destination SDK /authoring/destination-servers API endpoint.

To learn more about what you can do with this endpoint, see the following articles:

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