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PATCH
/
v1
/
alerts
/
{id}
Update alert
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/alerts/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '
{
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      "description": "<string>",
      "service_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "group_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "environment_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "started_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
      "ended_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
      "external_id": "<string>",
      "external_url": "<string>",
      "alert_urgency_id": "<string>",
      "labels": [
        {
          "key": "<string>",
          "value": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "data": {},
      "deduplication_key": "<string>",
      "alert_field_values_attributes": [
        {
          "alert_field_id": "<string>",
          "value": "<string>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "type": "alerts"
  }
}
'
{
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    "type": "alerts",
    "attributes": {
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      "status": "open",
      "summary": "test update",
      "description": "test update",
      "labels": [
        {
          "key": "foo",
          "value": "bar"
        },
        {
          "key": "bar",
          "value": "baz"
        }
      ],
      "services": [
        {
          "id": "b554cded-584c-4fee-b5ae-bca2a694c15c",
          "alert_broadcast_channel": {},
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          "alerts_email_address": "[email protected]",
          "alerts_email_enabled": false,
          "backstage_id": null,
          "color": "#F5D9C4",
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          "public_description": null,
          "service_now_ci_sys_id": null,
          "show_uptime": true,
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          "slack_aliases": [],
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      ],
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          "alerts_email_address": "[email protected]",
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          "auto_add_members_when_attached": false,
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          "color": "#FAEBB7",
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          "external_id": null,
          "incident_broadcast_channel": {},
          "incident_broadcast_enabled": false,
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          "slack_channels": [],
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "description": "Quasi recusandae quam eius.",
          "external_id": null,
          "incidents_count": 0,
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          "notify_emails": [],
          "position": 1,
          "slack_aliases": [],
          "slack_channels": [],
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "airtable_base_key": null,
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          "airtable_record_url": null,
          "airtable_table_name": null,
          "asana_task_id": null,
          "asana_task_url": null,
          "cancellation_message": null,
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          "cancelled_by_user_id": null,
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          "detected_at": null,
          "dropbox_paper_id": null,
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          "duplicate_incident_id": null,
          "email_message_id": null,
          "embedding": null,
          "external_id": null,
          "freshservice_task_id": null,
          "freshservice_task_url": null,
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          "freshservice_ticket_url": null,
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          "google_calendar_event_id": null,
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          "google_drive_id": null,
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          "google_drive_url": null,
          "google_meeting_bot_id": null,
          "google_meeting_id": null,
          "google_meeting_transcript": {},
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          "google_meeting_url": null,
          "in_triage_at": null,
          "in_triage_by_user_id": null,
          "incidents_action_items_count": 0,
          "incidents_tasks_count": 0,
          "jira_epic_id": null,
          "jira_epic_key": null,
          "jira_epic_url": null,
          "jira_issue_id": null,
          "jira_issue_key": null,
          "jira_issue_url": null,
          "kind": "normal",
          "labels": {},
          "left_slack_channel_slack_user_ids": [],
          "linear_issue_id": null,
          "linear_issue_key": null,
          "linear_issue_url": null,
          "mattermost_channel_id": null,
          "mattermost_channel_name": null,
          "mattermost_channel_url": null,
          "mattermost_summary_timestamp": null,
          "microsoft_teams_channel_id": null,
          "microsoft_teams_channel_name": null,
          "microsoft_teams_channel_service_url": null,
          "microsoft_teams_channel_short_url": null,
          "microsoft_teams_channel_url": null,
          "microsoft_teams_meeting_bot_id": null,
          "microsoft_teams_meeting_id": null,
          "microsoft_teams_meeting_transcript": {},
          "microsoft_teams_meeting_transcript_summary": null,
          "microsoft_teams_meeting_url": null,
          "microsoft_teams_summary_message_id": null,
          "microsoft_teams_team_id": null,
          "microsoft_teams_team_internal_id": null,
          "mitigated_at": null,
          "mitigated_by_user_id": null,
          "mitigation_message": null,
          "motion_task_id": null,
          "motion_task_url": null,
          "notify_channels": {},
          "notify_emails": [],
          "notion_page_id": null,
          "notion_page_url": null,
          "opsgenie_alert_id": null,
          "opsgenie_alert_url": null,
          "opsgenie_incident_id": null,
          "opsgenie_incident_responder_ids": [],
          "opsgenie_incident_url": null,
          "outlook_event_id": null,
          "outlook_event_url": null,
          "pagerduty_incident_id": null,
          "pagerduty_incident_number": null,
          "pagerduty_incident_responder_ids": {},
          "pagerduty_incident_url": null,
          "pagertree_alert_id": null,
          "pagertree_alert_url": null,
          "parent_incident_id": null,
          "parent_to_sub_incident_sync": false,
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          "private": false,
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          "quip_page_url": null,
          "resolution_message": null,
          "resolved_at": null,
          "resolved_by_user_id": null,
          "retrospective_auto_skipped": false,
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          "retrospective_mandatory": false,
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          "scheduled_remind_prior": false,
          "scheduled_until": null,
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          "slack_channel_id": null,
          "slack_channel_name": null,
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          "slack_channel_url": null,
          "slack_channel_workspace_id": null,
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          "zoom_meeting_id": null,
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          "zoom_meeting_password": null,
          "zoom_meeting_pstn_password": null,
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        }
      ],
      "data": {},
      "deduplication_key": null,
      "started_at": "2025-12-09T16:08:47.026-08:00",
      "ended_at": null,
      "external_id": null,
      "external_url": "https://example.com/alert/test",
      "url": "https://test.rootly.com/account/alerts/47264a97-d838-4abd-837e-d14f1a819840",
      "noise": "not_noise",
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    },
    "relationships": {
      "events": {
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            "type": "alert_events"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Path Parameters

id
string
required

Body

application/vnd.api+json
data
object
required

Response

removes existing alert field values and adds new ones

data
object
required