# Delete a business monitor

`DELETE /api/v1/entity/monitors/{monitorId}`

- Authentication: Secret API key as a bearer token
- Billing: Free.
- Group: Entity

Stop monitoring the list. The identifiers and results it stored are deleted with it.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `monitorId` | path | integer | yes |  |

## Example request

```bash
curl -X DELETE https://spaw.co/api/v1/entity/monitors/{monitorId} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…"
```

## Responses

### 200 — The monitor is gone.

### 401 — The key is missing, malformed, or revoked.

```json
{
    "success": false,
    "error": {
        "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
        "message": "Provide a valid API key as a bearer token.",
        "request_id": "req_01m1kgdm4xngzmbmff68g94w0c"
    }
}
```

### 404 — No such record on this account.

```json
{
    "success": false,
    "error": {
        "code": "NOT_FOUND",
        "message": "No record with that id on this account.",
        "request_id": "req_01m1kgdm4xngzmbmff68g94w0c"
    }
}
```

### 429 — Over 5 requests per second for the key. Retry after the limit resets.

```json
{
    "success": false,
    "error": {
        "code": "RATE_LIMITED",
        "message": "Too many requests. Retry after the limit resets.",
        "request_id": "req_01m1kgdm4xngzmbmff68g94w0c"
    }
}
```

## Error codes

- `UNAUTHENTICATED` — https://spaw.co/docs/errors/UNAUTHENTICATED
- `NOT_FOUND` — https://spaw.co/docs/errors/NOT_FOUND
- `RATE_LIMITED` — https://spaw.co/docs/errors/RATE_LIMITED
- `KEY_SCOPE_DENIED` — https://spaw.co/docs/errors/KEY_SCOPE_DENIED
- `EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED` — https://spaw.co/docs/errors/EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED

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Canonical page: https://spaw.co/docs/api/delete-entity-monitor · OpenAPI document: https://spaw.co/openapi.json · All endpoints: https://spaw.co/docs/api