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title: Delete a metric type
description: Deleting a metric type entails deleting many related records.
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Metric types and assessable records, Create an assessment metric for a category, Assessment metrics, Assessment administrator tasks, Using assessments, Assessments, Assessments and Surveys, Exploring Service Administration, Service Administration, Manage service capabilities, Extend ServiceNow AI Platform capabilities]
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# Delete a metric type

Deleting a metric type entails deleting many related records.

## Before you begin

Role required: assessment\_admin or admin

## About this task

You must delete some of these records manually before deleting the type, while the system deletes others automatically with the type.

## Procedure

1.  Delete the records associated with the type to delete:

    -   [Assessment results](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/r_AssessmentResults.md) \(metric and category results\)
    -   [Assessment instance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_AssessmentInstances.md) \(questions and assessment instances, in that order\)
    -   [Assessment groups](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_AssessmentGroups.md)
2.  Delete the type.

    A confirmation dialog box appears and alerts you that certain records associated with the type will also be deleted.

3.  Click **OK** to delete the type and these related records:

    -   Scheduled job for assessment generation
    -   Business rule for assessable record generation
    -   Assessable records
    -   Metric categories
    -   Category users
    -   Stakeholders
    -   Metrics
    -   Metric definitions
    -   Decision matrixes

**Parent Topic:**[Metric types and assessable records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/c_MetricTypesAndAssessableRecords.md)

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