Data Scanners - Delete

Service:

Defender for Cloud

API Version:

2026-08-01

Deletes a data scanner resource for the specified scope.

DELETE https://management.azure.com/{scopeId}/providers/Microsoft.Security/dataScanners/{scannerName}?api-version=2026-08-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
scannerName	path	True	string pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,260}$	The name of the data scanner.
scopeId	path	True	string	The scope of the data scanner. Valid scopes are a subscription (format: 'subscriptions/{subscriptionId}') or a resource group (format: 'subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}').
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK		Resource deleted successfully.
204 No Content		Resource does not exist.
Other Status Codes	Common.CloudError	An unexpected error response.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Deletes a data scanner resource at resource group scope.

Deletes a data scanner resource at subscription scope.

Deletes a data scanner resource at resource group scope.

Sample request

HTTP

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/20ff7fc3-e762-44dd-bd96-b71116dcdc23/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.Security/dataScanners/StorageDataScanner?api-version=2026-08-01

Sample response

Status code:

200

Status code:

204

Deletes a data scanner resource at subscription scope.

Sample request

HTTP

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/20ff7fc3-e762-44dd-bd96-b71116dcdc23/providers/Microsoft.Security/dataScanners/StorageDataScanner?api-version=2026-08-01

Sample response

Status code:

200

Status code:

204

Definitions

Name	Description
Common.CloudError	Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).
Common.CloudErrorBody	The error detail.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.

Common.CloudError

Object

Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).

Name	Type	Description
error	Common.CloudErrorBody	The error object.

Common.CloudErrorBody

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	Common.CloudErrorBody[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.