[role="xpack"]
[[idp-saml-delete-sp]]
=== Remove a SAML service provider
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<titleabbrev>Remove a SAML service provider</titleabbrev>
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Removes a SAML service provider definition from this identity provider.

[[idp-saml-delete-sp-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_idp/saml/sp/{sp_entity_id}`

[[idp-saml-delete-sp-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To use this API, you must have a role that grants the `cluster:admin/idp/saml/sp/delete` privilege.

[[idp-saml-delete-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

This API removes a service provider from the identity provider by deleting the underlying document that stores
the service provider definition.

[[idp-saml-delete-sp-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`sp_entity_id::
(string) The SAML entity Id of the service provider to be removed. In case the entity Id is a URL, it should be urlencoded.

[[idp-saml-delete-sp-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

`refresh`::
(Optional, string) One of `true`, `false`, or `wait_for`.
These values have the same meaning as in the <<docs-refresh, Index API>>,
but the default value for this API is `false`.

[[idp-saml-delete-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example deletes a service provider definition from the identity provider

[source, console]
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DELETE /_idp/saml/sp/https%3A%2F%2Fsome.sp.org%2F
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// TEST[skip:Do not enable identity provider for the docs cluster, at least not yet]