Platform
Administration
Data Deletion
10 min
there may be use cases where you want to remove selected data from abv, like erroneously created traces in a development flow, user data for pii, or your whole project in case you want to retain only recent data, you can use our data retention https //docs abv dev/data retention feature you can delete unwanted data from abv by deleting a single trace; deleting a batch of traces; deleting all traces that match a query filter; deleting a project; deleting an organization; or deleting a user account below, we will walk through each of the options and their guarantees deleting traces note that all trace deletions will delete related entities like scores and observations across all data storages single trace ui to delete a single trace, in traces view, scroll right and in action column press on three dots button and hit the delete button confirm that you want to delete the given trace api delete /api/public/traces/{traceid}​ see reference batch of traces ui to delete a batch of traces, select them in the trace list and select delete in the actions dropdown api delete /api/public/traces see reference delete by query to delete all traces that match a query filter, configure your desired filter in the traces list select all items on the current page and change that to all items in the top bar then select delete in the actions dropdown limitations most deletions in abv happen instantly, but the deletion of tracing data does not removing those records from our data warehouse is a resource intensive operation and, therefore, we rate limit how many deletions we process at any point in time usually, trace data is deleted from our system within 15 minutes of the delete call and there is no confirmation, i e to verify that your data got deleted, you will have to query it again deleting a project to delete a project, navigate to the project settings and scroll to the danger zone within the general section confirm that you want to delete your project this action immediately revokes all api keys and schedules the project for deletion within the next minutes, all related data is irreversibly removed from our system deleting a project is irreversible and all data will be removed be cautious when executing this action deleting an organization if there are no projects left in an organization, you can delete the organization in the organization settings navigate to the organization settings and scroll to the danger zone within the general section confirm that you want to delete your organization the organization and all associated user information will be removed from our system deleting a user account to delete your user account, please message us at support\@abv dev