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POST/api/v1/traces/cleanup

Delete old trace spans

Synchronously deletes trace_spans older than retentionDays. Requires retentionDays (>= 1). Optional projectId scopes the delete. Returns 200 { deleted, cutoffMs, retentionDays } (NOT an async job).

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "retentionDays": 1,
  "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "retentionDays"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "retentionDays": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1
        },
        "projectId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

200{ deleted, cutoffMs, retentionDays, projectId? }.
400(no description)
401(no description)
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/traces/cleanup \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "retentionDays": 1, "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/traces/cleanup",
  body: {
    "retentionDays": 1,
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/traces/cleanup",
    body={
    "retentionDays": 1,
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"retentionDays":1,"projectId":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/traces/cleanup", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401429

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