Deletes the specified log group and permanently deletes all the archived log events associated with the log group.
Request Syntax
{
"logGroupName": "string"
}Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- logGroupName
-
The name of the log group.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.
Pattern:
[\.\-_/#A-Za-z0-9]+Required: Yes
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- InvalidParameterException
-
A parameter is specified incorrectly.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- OperationAbortedException
-
Multiple concurrent requests to update the same resource were in conflict.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ResourceNotFoundException
-
The specified resource does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ServiceUnavailableException
-
The service cannot complete the request.
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
To delete a log group
The following example deletes the specified log group.
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: logs.<region>.<domain>
X-Amz-Date: <DATE>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=content-type;date;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target;x-amzn-requestid, Signature=<Signature>
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
X-Amz-Target: Logs_20140328.DeleteLogGroup
{
"logGroupName": "my-log-group"
}Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <RequestId>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Date: <Date>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
