---
type: api
title: Delete cases
description: You must have `read` or `all` privileges and the `delete` sub-feature privilege for the **Cases** feature in the **Management**, **Observability**, or **Security** section of the Kibana feature privileges, depending on the owner of the cases you're deleting.
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/kibana/v0/operation/operation-deletecasedefaultspace
resource: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/kibana/v0/operation/operation-deletecasedefaultspace
products:
  - Kibana
---

# Delete cases

- Server: `https://{kibana_url}`

## Paths

- `DELETE` `/api/cases`

- [Api key auth](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/kibana/v0/authentication#apikeyauth)
- [Basic auth](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/kibana/v0/authentication#basicauth)

## Description

You must have `read` or `all` privileges and the `delete` sub-feature privilege for the **Cases** feature in the **Management**, **Observability**, or **Security** section of the Kibana feature privileges, depending on the owner of the cases you're deleting.

## Query String Parameters

- `ids` ([] string)
  The cases that you want to removed. To get the case identifiers, use the search cases (`_find`) API. In the Dev Console, you can specify the array of cases in the following format: `ids=["e58e77e3-ef8e-4251-926f-efb115f3c4ec"]`. In `curl`, all non-ASCII characters must be URL encoded. For example: `ids=%5B%22e58e77e3-ef8e-4251-926f-efb115f3c4ec%22%5D`

## Responses

#### `204`

Indicates a successful call.

#### `401`

Authorization information is missing or invalid.

`application/json`

- `error` (string)
- `message` (string)
- `statusCode` (integer)
## Code Examples

#### Console

```console
DELETE kbn:/api/cases?ids=["030e6e34-6470-4001-864f-b229511ad188","e662ff34-0493-4538-b9d1-6706ced02ff2"]
```

#### curl

```curl
curl \
  --request DELETE 'https://localhost:5601/api/cases?ids=%5B%22030e6e34-6470-4001-864f-b229511ad188%22%2C%22e662ff34-0493-4538-b9d1-6706ced02ff2%22%5D' \
  --header "Authorization: $API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "kbn-xsrf: true"
```

## Response Examples

#### Authorization information is missing or invalid.

```json
{
  "error": "Unauthorized",
  "message": "Unable to authenticate with the provided credentials.",
  "statusCode": 401
}
```