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POST
/
v1
/
causes
Creates a cause
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/causes \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '
{
  "data": {
    "type": "causes",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "position": 123
    }
  }
}
'
{
  "data": {
    "id": "93988372-79a5-4ac9-b3ae-59bc75a8501d",
    "type": "causes",
    "attributes": {
      "slug": "how-to-handle-customer-facing-incident",
      "name": "How to handle customer-facing incident?",
      "description": "This is a description",
      "position": 1,
      "created_at": "2025-12-03T03:05:04.197-08:00",
      "updated_at": "2025-12-03T03:05:04.197-08:00"
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

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

Body

application/vnd.api+json
data
object
required

Response

cause created

data
object
required