---
title: How to Destroy Weaviate Clusterspublic
description: Permanently destroy a Managed Weaviate cluster and its backups using the API or Control Panel.
product: Vector Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/weaviate/how-to/destroy/
last_updated: "2026-06-30"
---

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# How to Destroy Weaviate Clusters (public)

DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is a fully managed Weaviate vector database for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and similarity-based AI workloads. Clusters are provisioned, secured, backed up, and patched by DigitalOcean.

Deleting a Weaviate cluster permanently and irreversibly destroys the cluster, its contents, and its automated backups.

## Destroy a Cluster Using the API

Send a `DELETE` request to remove a cluster:

```shell
curl -X DELETE "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/vector-databases/$CLUSTER_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"
```

A `200 OK` response with an empty body indicates the cluster was queued for deletion.

For the full endpoint reference, see [Delete a Vector Database](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/vector-databases/index.html.md#vectorDatabases_delete).

## Destroy a Cluster Using the Control Panel

To destroy a Weaviate cluster from the Control Panel, go to the [**Vector Databases** page](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/vectordatabases) and locate the cluster you want to destroy. Click the cluster’s **…** menu and select **Destroy**.

![A Weaviate cluster's expanded ... menu showing the Destroy option highlighted](https://docs.digitalocean.com/screenshots/vector-databases/vector-db-meatball-menu-destroy.47d1212f38accc8518e68b9b05f6599d89af7066301b538c954724a5a35e70bf.png)

In the **Destroy vector database** window, copy and paste the name of the vector database cluster into the text field, and then click **Destroy**.

**Warning**:

  Destroying a cluster deletes all data and automatic backups. This action cannot be undone.