Creates a new action item from provided data
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incidents/{incident_id}/action_items \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
--data '{
"data": {
"type": "incident_action_items",
"attributes": {
"summary": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"kind": "task",
"assigned_to_user_id": 123,
"assigned_to_group_ids": [
"<string>"
],
"priority": "high",
"status": "open",
"due_date": "<string>",
"jira_issue_id": "<string>",
"jira_issue_key": "<string>",
"jira_issue_url": "<string>"
}
}
}'
{
"data": {
"id": "120473de-f324-4f73-bd41-f3b69752caa3",
"type": "incident_action_items",
"attributes": {
"incident_id": "ceeff1e6-9c04-4913-a16c-50bb6f89b134",
"incident_title": "Et sed quidem vel.",
"description": "New action item description",
"assigned_to": {
"id": 172,
"email": "andreas.swaniawski@casper-thompson.example",
"deleted_at": null,
"created_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:05.837-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.522-07:00",
"current_team_id": 162,
"first_name": "Jc",
"last_name": "Gusikowski",
"time_zone": "UTC",
"last_seen_at": null,
"profile_photo_id": null,
"ability_cache": {
"team_ids": [
162
],
"administrating_team_ids": []
},
"last_notification_email_sent_at": null,
"accept_terms": true,
"onboarding_completed": true,
"service_user": false,
"accept_marketing": true,
"teams_count": 1,
"created_through_sso": false,
"scim_uid": null,
"session_token": null,
"incidents_example_count": 0,
"incidents_test_count": 0,
"incidents_normal_count": 0,
"incidents_scheduled_count": 0,
"incidents_backfilled_count": 0,
"incidents_count": 0,
"theme": "light_v2",
"skip_tutorial": false,
"external_id": null,
"jti": "d9475758-8553-4c42-aaf2-220baf9f9434",
"is_super_admin": false,
"has_impersonate_write_permission": false,
"view_multiple_schedules": true,
"push_notification_new_alert_sound": "default",
"push_notification_shift_starts_sound": "soft_bloob",
"push_notification_shift_ends_sound": "soft_bloob",
"how_did_you_hear_about_us": null,
"push_notification_new_alert_volume": 1,
"opsgenie_id": null,
"victor_ops_id": null,
"pagerduty_id": null,
"locale": "en"
},
"assigned_to_group_ids": [
"27b2aeac-f0f5-4eb0-85d5-9c9b6e4f3e4b",
"204536eb-9d03-4df5-acad-e5889e010f25"
],
"kind": "task",
"priority": "medium",
"status": "open",
"due_date": null,
"jira_issue_id": null,
"jira_issue_key": null,
"jira_issue_url": null,
"asana_task_id": null,
"asana_task_url": null,
"github_issue_id": null,
"github_issue_url": null,
"gitlab_issue_id": null,
"gitlab_issue_url": null,
"shortcut_story_id": null,
"shortcut_story_url": null,
"shortcut_task_id": null,
"shortcut_task_url": null,
"trello_card_id": null,
"trello_card_url": null,
"linear_issue_id": null,
"linear_issue_url": null,
"zendesk_ticket_id": null,
"zendesk_ticket_url": null,
"motion_task_id": null,
"motion_task_url": null,
"clickup_task_id": null,
"clickup_task_url": null,
"airtable_base_key": null,
"airtable_table_name": null,
"airtable_record_id": null,
"airtable_record_url": null,
"freshservice_ticket_id": null,
"freshservice_ticket_url": null,
"freshservice_task_id": null,
"freshservice_task_url": null,
"url": "https://test.rootly.com/account/incidents/et-sed-quidem-vel#nav-action-items",
"short_url": null,
"created_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.681-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.681-07:00",
"summary": "New action item summary"
}
}
}
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>
, where <token>
is your auth token.
incident_action_item created
The response is of type object
.
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incidents/{incident_id}/action_items \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
--data '{
"data": {
"type": "incident_action_items",
"attributes": {
"summary": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"kind": "task",
"assigned_to_user_id": 123,
"assigned_to_group_ids": [
"<string>"
],
"priority": "high",
"status": "open",
"due_date": "<string>",
"jira_issue_id": "<string>",
"jira_issue_key": "<string>",
"jira_issue_url": "<string>"
}
}
}'
{
"data": {
"id": "120473de-f324-4f73-bd41-f3b69752caa3",
"type": "incident_action_items",
"attributes": {
"incident_id": "ceeff1e6-9c04-4913-a16c-50bb6f89b134",
"incident_title": "Et sed quidem vel.",
"description": "New action item description",
"assigned_to": {
"id": 172,
"email": "andreas.swaniawski@casper-thompson.example",
"deleted_at": null,
"created_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:05.837-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.522-07:00",
"current_team_id": 162,
"first_name": "Jc",
"last_name": "Gusikowski",
"time_zone": "UTC",
"last_seen_at": null,
"profile_photo_id": null,
"ability_cache": {
"team_ids": [
162
],
"administrating_team_ids": []
},
"last_notification_email_sent_at": null,
"accept_terms": true,
"onboarding_completed": true,
"service_user": false,
"accept_marketing": true,
"teams_count": 1,
"created_through_sso": false,
"scim_uid": null,
"session_token": null,
"incidents_example_count": 0,
"incidents_test_count": 0,
"incidents_normal_count": 0,
"incidents_scheduled_count": 0,
"incidents_backfilled_count": 0,
"incidents_count": 0,
"theme": "light_v2",
"skip_tutorial": false,
"external_id": null,
"jti": "d9475758-8553-4c42-aaf2-220baf9f9434",
"is_super_admin": false,
"has_impersonate_write_permission": false,
"view_multiple_schedules": true,
"push_notification_new_alert_sound": "default",
"push_notification_shift_starts_sound": "soft_bloob",
"push_notification_shift_ends_sound": "soft_bloob",
"how_did_you_hear_about_us": null,
"push_notification_new_alert_volume": 1,
"opsgenie_id": null,
"victor_ops_id": null,
"pagerduty_id": null,
"locale": "en"
},
"assigned_to_group_ids": [
"27b2aeac-f0f5-4eb0-85d5-9c9b6e4f3e4b",
"204536eb-9d03-4df5-acad-e5889e010f25"
],
"kind": "task",
"priority": "medium",
"status": "open",
"due_date": null,
"jira_issue_id": null,
"jira_issue_key": null,
"jira_issue_url": null,
"asana_task_id": null,
"asana_task_url": null,
"github_issue_id": null,
"github_issue_url": null,
"gitlab_issue_id": null,
"gitlab_issue_url": null,
"shortcut_story_id": null,
"shortcut_story_url": null,
"shortcut_task_id": null,
"shortcut_task_url": null,
"trello_card_id": null,
"trello_card_url": null,
"linear_issue_id": null,
"linear_issue_url": null,
"zendesk_ticket_id": null,
"zendesk_ticket_url": null,
"motion_task_id": null,
"motion_task_url": null,
"clickup_task_id": null,
"clickup_task_url": null,
"airtable_base_key": null,
"airtable_table_name": null,
"airtable_record_id": null,
"airtable_record_url": null,
"freshservice_ticket_id": null,
"freshservice_ticket_url": null,
"freshservice_task_id": null,
"freshservice_task_url": null,
"url": "https://test.rootly.com/account/incidents/et-sed-quidem-vel#nav-action-items",
"short_url": null,
"created_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.681-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-07-23T22:44:09.681-07:00",
"summary": "New action item summary"
}
}
}