Delete a User API Key¶

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The Atlas API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username and API key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request.

For complete documentation on configuring API access for an Atlas project, see Configure Atlas API Access.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

Use this endpoint to delete a user’s API key. You must be the user specified in the digest authentication to successfully use this endpoint.

Resource¶

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DELETE /users/{USER-ID}/keys/{KEY-ID}

Request Parameters¶

Request Path Parameters¶

Path Element	Required/Optional	Description
`USER-ID`	Required.	The unique identifier for your MongoDB user. Specify the value of the `id` field for the desired user in the response body of the /orgs/{ORG-ID}/users endpoint.
`KEY-ID`	Required	The unique identifier for the user API key that you want to delete. Specify the value of the `id` field for the desired key in the response body of the users/{USER-ID}/keys endpoint.

Request Query Parameters¶

This endpoint may use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas API resources. These are all optional.

Name	Type	Description	Default
`pretty`	boolean	Displays response in a prettyprint format.	`false`
`envelope`	boolean	Specifies whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.	`false`

Request Body Parameters¶

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Response¶

This endpoint returns an empty JSON document.

Example Request¶

The following example disables a user API key:

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curl -X DELETE --digest -i -u "{username:apiKey}" \
  "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/users/{USER-ID}/keys/{KEY-ID}"

Example Response¶

This endpoint does not return a response body.

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