# Release Lease (/machines/Machines_release_lease)

Release the lease of a specific Machine within an app. Machine leases can be used to obtain an exclusive lock on modifying a Machine.


`DELETE /apps/{app_name}/machines/{machine_id}/lease`

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `app_name` | path | `string` | Yes | Fly App Name |
| `machine_id` | path | `string` | Yes | Machine ID |
| `fly-machine-lease-nonce` | header | `string` | Yes | Existing lease nonce |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Schema |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | OK |  |

The full machine-readable OpenAPI spec is available at /openapi.json.