---
title: "POST /v1/delete-conversations"
method: POST
path: "/v1/delete-conversations"
tags: ["ChatService"]
---

# POST /v1/delete-conversations

`POST /v1/delete-conversations`

Delete conversations from the chat history corpus. This is useful for data management to help ensure that you maintain data hygiene and support compliance with data retention policies.        

Some tips for this API:
* This operation authenticates with either an API Key or OAuth 2.0 (in a JWT "Bearer Token"). You can find details of how to set up an API key or use OAuth 2.0 [here](https://docs.vectara.com/docs/console-ui/manage-api-access).

## Headers

- `customer-id` integer, required
- `timeout` string

## Request body

- ChatDeleteConversationsRequest
  - `conversationId` string[] — The IDs of the conversations to delete. Limit: 1000 conversations.

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- ChatDeleteConversationsResponse
  - `status` ComvectaraStatus
    - `code` 'OK' | 'FAILURE' | 'UNKNOWN' | 'INVALID_ARGUMENT' | 'DEADLINE_EXCEEDED' | 'ALREADY_EXISTS' | 'PERMISSION_DENIED' | 'RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED' | 'FAILED_PRECONDITION' | 'ABORTED' | 'OUT_OF_RANGE' | 'UNIMPLEMENTED' | 'INTERNAL' | 'UNAVAILABLE' | 'DATA_LOSS' | 'UNAUTHENTICATED' | 'BAD_REQUEST' | 'UNAUTHORIZED' | 'FORBIDDEN' | 'NOT_FOUND' | 'METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED' | 'CONFLICT' | 'UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE' | 'TOO_MANY_REQUESTS' | 'INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR' | 'NOT_IMPLEMENTED' | 'SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE' | 'INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE' | 'UNPARSEABLE_RESPONSE' | 'DISABLED_CUSTOMER' | 'INVALID_CUSTOMER_ID' | 'DISABLED_CORPUS' | 'INVALID_CORPUS_ID' | 'DISABLED_API_KEY' | 'EXPIRED_API_KEY' | 'INVALID_API_KEY' | 'CMK_INACCESSIBLE' | 'QRY__DISABLED_CORPUS' | 'QRY__DOCUMENT_DB_FAILURE' | 'QRY__ENCODER_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INTERRUPTED' | 'QRY__INVALID_CORPUS' | 'QRY__INVALID_START' | 'QRY__INVALID_NUM_RESULTS' | 'QRY__INVALID_CONTEXT' | 'QRY__MISSING_QUERY' | 'QRY__MISSING_CORPUS' | 'QRY__TIMEOUT' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_CORPORA' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_QUERIES' | 'QRY__VECTOR_INDEX_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INVALID_DIMENSION' | 'QRY__INVALID_CLIENTKEY' | 'QRY__DECRYPTION_FAILURE' | 'QRY__INVALID_RERANKER' | 'QRY__PARTIAL_RERANK' | 'QRY__RERANK_FAILURE' | 'QRY__TOO_MANY_RESULT_ROWS' | 'QRY__PARTIAL_RETRIEVAL' | 'QRY__SMRY__INVALID_SUMMARIZER_PROMPT' | 'QRY__SMRY__INVALID_SUMMARY_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__UNSUPPORTED_SUMMARY_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__PARTIAL_SUMMARY' | 'QRY__SMRY__NO_QUERY_RESULTS' | 'QRY__SMRY__EVAL_UNSUPPORTED_LANG' | 'QRY__SMRY__EVAL_FAILURE' | 'QRY__GEN__NO_QUERY_RESULTS' | 'QRY__GEN__UNPARSEABLE_MODEL_PARAMS' | 'CX_SPECS__INVALID_JSON' | 'CX_SPECS__UNREGISTERED_TYPE' | 'CX_SPECS__MISSING_SPEC' | 'CX_SPECS__MISSING_TYPE' | 'CX_SPECS__UNPARSEABLE_SPEC' | 'ADM__INVALID_CUSTOMER_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_CORPUS_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_ENCODER_ID' | 'ADM__INVALID_ROLE_ID' | 'ADM__ROLE_ALREADY_EXISTS' | 'ADM__ONLY_ONE_OWNER_SUPPORTED' | 'ADM__INVALID_PERMISSION' | 'ADM__ROLECREATION_FAILURE' | 'ADM__USER_EMAIL_NOT_AVAIALBLE' | 'ADM__USERNAME_NOT_AVAILABLE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_NAME' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_ORG' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_EMAIL' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PAYMENT' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PLAN' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_PASSWORD' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_NAME' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_ORG' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_EMAIL' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PAYMENT' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PLAN' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_PASSWORD' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_ACCOUNT_ALIAS' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_INVALID_EMAIL_VALIDATION_CODE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_MISSING_COUNTRY_CODE' | 'ADM__SIGNUP_ROOT_EMAIL_NOT_AVAILABLE' | 'ADM__CUST_MARK_DELETE_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_FAISS_DEALLOC_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_ALREADY_ACTIVE' | 'ADM__CUST_REACTIVATE_FAILED' | 'ADM__CUST_ENABLEMENT_FAILED' | 'ADM__CORPUS_LIMIT_REACHED' | 'ADM__STRIPE_CARD_DECLINED' | 'ADM__STRIPE_PROCESSING_ERROR' | 'ADM__EMAIL_VALIDATION_REQUEST_NOT_FOUND' | 'ADM__EMAIL_NOT_VALIDATED' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__NO_CURRENT_PLAN' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__REQUIRES_MANUAL_CHANGE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__INVALID_PLAN_ID' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__NO_PAYMENT_SOURCE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__INVALID_EFFECTIVE_DATE' | 'ADM__CHANGE_PLAN__CONFLICTING_CHANGE' | 'SCM__MISCONFIGURED_CONNECTION' | 'STATS_DB_READ_FAILURE' | 'VDB__TEXT_READ_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__LOW_RECALL' | 'REBUILD__INDEX_UPLOAD_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__UPDATE_JOURNAL_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__UPDATE_FAISSPARAMS_FAILURE' | 'REBUILD__NO_DATA' | 'REBUILD__EVALUATION' | 'IDX__TRANSIENT_PARTIAL_DELETION_FAILURE' | 'IDX__PERMANENT_PARTIAL_DELETION_FAILURE' | 'CALB__INVALID_JSON' | 'CALB__INVALID_SPEC' | 'CALB__UNREGISTERED_TYPE' | 'CALB__MISSING_SPEC' | 'CALB__MISSING_TYPE' | 'CALB__UNPARSABLE_SPEC'
    - `statusDetail` string

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

---

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