How to delete quickly ADT content?

Question

We are habing trouble deleting all content of our ADT.
Because of refresh of data, we need to delete all twins of our ADT. We have around 18000 twins with no relationships and when trying via ADT explorer, the query does not complete.
So for now, we are using the "az dt twin delete-all" command but it takes around 3 hours.

What can we do to speed up this process ?

Answer 1

The best way to do this would be to use the SDK and write your own small implementation. The az dt twin delete-all command might try to delete everything on a single thread, or query for relationships, which will take a long time. If you have no relationships, you need to first query all the twins, and then delete them in parallel. Deleting them in parallel should allow you to do 18000 items with no relationships in a matter of minutes. The only thing to take into account is that there is a service limit of 150 API calls per second, so make sure you stay within those limits (or write some retry logic to deal with it)