1. API Description

Domain name for API request: ssm.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to delete a Secret. You can set whether to delete the Secret immediately or on schedule using the RecoveryWindowInDays parameter. For a Secret to be deleted on schedule, its status will be PendingDelete before the scheduled deletion time. You can use RestoreSecret to restore a deleted Secret during this time. A deleted Secret will not be restorable after the scheduled deletion time. A Secret can only be deleted after being disabled using DisableSecret.

A maximum of 50 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

3. Output Parameters

4. Example

Example1 Deleting a Secret

Input Example

https://ssm.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DeleteSecret
&SecretName=test
&RecoveryWindowInDays=1
&<Common Request Parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "2609a8fd-4584-4f89-98be-8c7ae1b81ef4",
    "SecretName": "test",
    "DeleteTime": 1574247268
  }
}

5. Developer Resources

API Explorer

This tool allows online call, signature authentication, SDK code generation and quick search of APIs to greatly improve the efficiency of using TencentCloud APIs.

• API 3.0 Explorer

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Python
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Java
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for PHP
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Go
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for NodeJS
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for .NET

Command Line Interface

• Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.