Drop Alias (V2)
This operation drops a specified alias.
The base URL for this API is in the following format:
https://{cluster-id}.{region}.vectordb.zillizcloud.com:19530
- Use the cluster endpoint if you are using serving clusters.
Free & Serverless
https://{cluster-id}.serverless.{region}.vectordb.zillizcloud.comDedicated
https://{cluster-id}.{region}.vectordb.zillizcloud.com:19530
- You need to fill in
${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}with that of your Zilliz Cloud cluster. - To get the endpoint, use the Describe Cluster V2 API to extract the values from the responses.
export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="https://{cluster-id}.{region}.vectordb.zillizcloud.com:19530"
The authentication token should be an API key with appropriate privileges or a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password. If you are using a project endpoint, only a valid API key with sufficient permissions applies.
The name of the database to which the collection belongs.
The alias to drop. When dropping an alias, you do not need to provide the collection name because one alias can only be assigned to exactly one collection. Therefore, the server knows which collection the specified alias belongs to.
export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/drop" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}". \
--header "Request-Timeout: 10" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"aliasName": "bob"
}'
A success response
Response code.
Response payload which is an empty object.
Response code.
Error message.
{
"code": 0,
"data": {}
}