With new relic's http api, how do you turn off uptime monitoring?

I am attempting to turn off uptime monitoring, using curl, per the instructions given in new relics documentation here: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/alerts/availability-monitor-settings

According to this documentation, this request will disable my uptime monitoring:

curl https://www.myhost.com/accounts/acct_id/applications/app_id/ping_targets/disable -X POST -H "X-Api-Key: "my_key"

Here is the request that I am using (stripped of personal info): curl "https://api.newrelic.com/api/v1/accounts/NNNNNN/applications/NNNNNNN/ping_targets/disable" -X POST -H "X-Api-Key:x...x"

I have used my acct_id, app_id, and x-api-key successfully for other GET commands. However when I attempt the above command I get this error:

<hash>
  <error>The requested page could not be found</error>
</hash>

According to this stack exchange post: Turn Newrelic monitoring on or off via rest api there is not a way to do this, but that conflicts with the documentation.

So, is there a way to accomplish this? Has anyone successfully done this?

Solution

Assuming that "uptime monitoring" refers to Availability Monitoring, this must be accomplished by disabling the policy that controls the monitoring. This can be found by using a command like this to determine the policy id number

curl -X GET 'https://api.newrelic.com/v2/alert_policies.xml' -gH "X-Api-Key:<APIKEY>" -i -d 'filter[name]=<POLICY_NAME>'

If the policy name contains spaces, substitute with '+'.

From the output, locate the POLICY_ID

<alert_policies_response>
  <alert_policies>
    <alert_policy>
      <id>104446</id>    <----<<<< POLICY_ID
      <type>application</type>
      <name><POLICY_NAME></name>
      .....

Also identify the condition id by scanning the output for 'availability' and note the ID number.

   <condition>
     <id>997294</id>   <----<<<<   CONDITION_ID
     <type>application_availability</type>
     <severity>downtime</severity>
     ....

Now use the resultant POLICY_ID and CONDITON_ID to disable the policy.

curl -X PUT 'https://api.newrelic.com/v2/alert_policies/<POLICY_ID>.json' \
     -H 'X-Api-Key:<APIKEY>' -i \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d \
'{
  "alert_policy": 
    {
    "conditions": [
       {
         "id": <CONDITION_ID>,
         "enabled": false
       }]
    }
 }'

Note that once the POLICY_ID and CONDITION_ID are determined, only the last command is required.