Create incident

Opens an incident by hand, for problems a watcher didn't catch.

POST https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents

Headers

AuthorizationREQUIREDSTRING
Bearer $TOKEN
Content-TypeREQUIREDSTRING
application/json

Body parameters

incident.watcher_idREQUIREDSTRING
Watcher the incident belongs to.
incident.descriptionREQUIREDSTRING
What is wrong.
incident.statusSTRING
open, acknowledged or resolved. Defaults to open.
incident.started_atSTRING
When it started, ISO 8601. Defaults to now.

Response body

{
  "id": "uuid",
  "watcher_id": "uuid",
  "watcher": {
    "id": "uuid",
    "title": "My Website",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "category": "website"
  },
  "status": "open",
  "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers",
  "started_at": "2024-01-15T10:00:00Z",
  "acknowledged_at": null,
  "resolved_at": null,
  "duration": null,
  "comments_count": 0,
  "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:00:00Z"
}

Code examples

curl -X POST "https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "incident": {
      "watcher_id": "uuid",
      "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers"
    }
  }'

// Create incident
const response = await fetch('https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + yourToken,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "incident": {
      "watcher_id": "uuid",
      "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers"
    }
  })
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

# Create incident
import requests

headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer {your_token}'}

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents',
    headers=headers,
    json={
        'incident': {
            'watcher_id': 'uuid',
            'description': 'Checkout is failing for EU customers'
        }
    }
)

print(response.json())

// Create incident
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    body := strings.NewReader(`{
      "incident": {
        "watcher_id": "uuid",
        "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers"
      }
    }`)
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents", body)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+yourToken)
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    data, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(resp.Status, string(data))
}

# Create incident
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI('https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = "Bearer #{your_token}"
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = <<~JSON
  {
    "incident": {
      "watcher_id": "uuid",
      "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers"
    }
  }
JSON

response = http.request(request)
puts response.code, response.body

<?php
// Create incident
$ch = curl_init('https://api.uptimetea.com/incidents');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'Authorization: Bearer ' . $yourToken,
    'Content-Type: application/json'
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, <<<'JSON'
{
  "incident": {
    "watcher_id": "uuid",
    "description": "Checkout is failing for EU customers"
  }
}
JSON);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(json_decode($response, true));
curl_close($ch);