Delete rulesets

You can use the API to delete all the versions of a ruleset or delete a specific version of a ruleset.

• Delete ruleset (all versions)
• Delete ruleset version

Delete ruleset

Deletes all the versions of an existing ruleset at the account or zone level.

Use one of the following API endpoints:

Operation	Method + Endpoint
Delete an account ruleset	DELETE /accounts/{account_id}/rulesets/{ruleset_id}
Delete a zone ruleset	DELETE /zones/{zone_id}/rulesets/{ruleset_id}

If the delete operation succeeds, the API method call returns a 204 No Content HTTP status code.

Note

You cannot delete a ruleset that is still referenced in other rules. For example, you cannot delete a custom ruleset that is being deployed in a rule with execute action.

To delete the ruleset, update or delete any rules that reference the ruleset and try again.

Example

The following example request deletes an existing ruleset with ID $RULESET_ID.

Required API token permissions

At least one of the following token permissions is required:

• Mass URL Redirects Write
• Magic Firewall Write
• L4 DDoS Managed Ruleset Write
• Transform Rules Write
• Select Configuration Write
• Account WAF Write
• Account Rulesets Write
• Logs Write

Delete an account ruleset

curl "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/rulesets/$RULESET_ID" \
  --request DELETE \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"

Delete ruleset version

Deletes a specific version of a ruleset.

Use one of the following API endpoints:

Operation	Method + Endpoint
Delete an account ruleset version	DELETE /accounts/{account_id}/rulesets/{ruleset_id}/versions/{version_number}
Delete a zone ruleset version	DELETE /zones/{zone_id}/rulesets/{ruleset_id}/versions/{version_number}

If the delete operation succeeds, the method call returns a 204 No Content HTTP status code.

Later updates to the ruleset will not reuse the version number of a deleted ruleset version.

Note

You cannot delete a ruleset version if it is the latest ruleset version and there is a rule with execute action deploying that ruleset.

To delete the ruleset version, update or delete any rules that reference the ruleset and try again.

Example

The following example request deletes a version of an existing ruleset.

Required API token permissions

At least one of the following token permissions is required:

• Mass URL Redirects Write
• Magic Firewall Write
• L4 DDoS Managed Ruleset Write
• Transform Rules Write
• Select Configuration Write
• Account WAF Write
• Account Rulesets Write
• Logs Write

Delete an account ruleset version

curl "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/rulesets/$RULESET_ID/versions/$RULESET_VERSION" \
  --request DELETE \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"