# Delete an incident

`DELETE https://evohub.io/api/v1/pages/{pageID}/incidents/{id}`

Part of the [Status API](https://docs-dev.evohub.io/status.md) reference · operationId `deleteIncident`.

Deletes the incident and its timeline.

**Permission (API-key scope):** `status:incident:write`.

## Authorization

Any one of:

- `bearerAuth` (status:incident:write)
- `apiKeyHeader` (status:incident:write)

Where:

- `bearerAuth`: HTTP Bearer — An EvoHub API key (`evohub_…`) as a bearer token.
- `apiKeyHeader`: API key in the header `X-API-Key` — An EvoHub API key (`evohub_…`).

## Path parameters

- `pageID` (string (uuid), required, example `3f6c2a1e-8b4d-4f7a-9c21-5d0e7a9b1c42`): The status page's id (a UUID).
- `id` (string (uuid), required): The incident's, maintenance window's or subscriber's id (a UUID).

## Responses

### 204 — Deleted.

### 401 — No API key was sent, or it is unknown, revoked or expired (`UNAUTHORIZED`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.
  - `request_id` (string): This request's id, also in `X-Request-ID`.

### 403 — The key lacks the scope this endpoint needs (`FORBIDDEN`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.
  - `request_id` (string): This request's id, also in `X-Request-ID`.

### 404 — No such page or incident, or one on another page (`NOT_FOUND`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.
  - `request_id` (string): This request's id, also in `X-Request-ID`.

### 429 — Too many requests (`RATE_LIMITED`). Wait `Retry-After` seconds.

Headers:

- `Retry-After` (integer): Seconds to wait.

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.
  - `request_id` (string): This request's id, also in `X-Request-ID`.

### 500 — Something went wrong on EvoHub's side (`INTERNAL_ERROR`). Retry later.

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.
  - `request_id` (string): This request's id, also in `X-Request-ID`.

## Example request

```bash
curl -X DELETE 'https://evohub.io/api/v1/pages/3f6c2a1e-8b4d-4f7a-9c21-5d0e7a9b1c42/incidents/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>'
```