[atlas] Deletion of erroneously scheduled measurements

Dear Atlas folks,

I have accidentially scheduled many faulty measurements via the API and
am now looking for a way to remove them in order to minimize unnecessary
burden on the Atlas system and not to pollute my account & limits with
unnecessary measurements.

However, the DELETE statement (AtlasStopRequest) only seems to be able
to stop ongoing measurements [1]. I always get the following reply
trying to remove any future measurement: {'error': {'detail': 'That
measurement cannot be stopped', 'status': 400, 'title': 'Bad Request',
'code': 104}}

Also, the AtlasChangeSource & AtlasChangeRequest of Cousteau [2] can
only change ongoing experiments (as I wanted to set the probes in each
measurement to 1 if I wasn´t allowed to delete any of them). But since
they are upcoming, but not ongoing, I could also not alter them.

I am also referring to a mailing-list post from October 2013 stating
essentially the same problem [3]. Given the significant amount of time
that has passed since then I wanted to raise this issue again.

Is there any way to delete a measurement that is in the "SPECIFIED"
state, which means that it will only be executed in the future?
I understand that we might want to avoid deletion of measurements that
have already been run in the past in order to allow others to benefit
from the results, but why shouldn´t one be allowed to eliminate faulty
measurements that have been scheduled by accident in the future?

Thanks & a Happy New Year!

Kind regards,
Nils


[1]
https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/api/v2/manual/measurements/stop-measurements.html
[2] https://ripe-atlas-cousteau.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use.html
[3]
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2013-October/001058.html
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