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Trim a dataset
POST

Trim a dataset

Drop everything older than a cutoff, without changing retention.

A one-off delete of old blocks. Use it to reclaim spend after a runaway sender, without permanently lowering the retention window.

Irreversible

Trimmed blocks are gone. There is no undo and no grace period.
POST/v1/datasets/{name}/trim

Path parameters

namestringrequired

Dataset name or ds_….

Body parameters

max_durationstringrequired

Keep only this much history, e.g. 7d, 48h.

curl -X POST https://api.logstreem.com/v1/datasets/{name}/trim \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOGSTREEM_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"max_duration":"7d"}'

Responses

200OK
{
  "object": "dataset",
  "id": "ds_9f2c7b1a4d8e0c3f6a5b",
  "trimmed_blocks": 1284
}
401Unauthorized
{
  "error": {
    "type": "authentication_error",
    "code": "missing_token",
    "message": "No API token provided.",
    "doc_url": "https://logstreem.com/docs/errors#missing_token",
    "request_id": "req_9f3c2a7b41de08c5b2e6"
  }
}
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