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POST
/
v1
/
incidents
Creates an incident
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incidents \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '
{
  "data": {
    "type": "incidents",
    "attributes": {
      "title": "<string>",
      "kind": "normal",
      "parent_incident_id": "<string>",
      "duplicate_incident_id": "<string>",
      "private": false,
      "summary": "<string>",
      "user_id": "<string>",
      "severity_id": "<string>",
      "public_title": "<string>",
      "alert_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "environment_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "incident_type_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "service_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "functionality_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "group_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "cause_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "muted_service_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "labels": {},
      "slack_channel_name": "<string>",
      "slack_channel_id": "<string>",
      "slack_channel_url": "<string>",
      "slack_channel_archived": true,
      "google_drive_parent_id": "<string>",
      "google_drive_url": "<string>",
      "jira_issue_key": "<string>",
      "jira_issue_id": "<string>",
      "jira_issue_url": "<string>",
      "notify_emails": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "status": "in_triage",
      "url": "<string>",
      "scheduled_for": "<string>",
      "scheduled_until": "<string>",
      "in_triage_at": "<string>",
      "started_at": "<string>",
      "detected_at": "<string>",
      "acknowledged_at": "<string>",
      "mitigated_at": "<string>",
      "resolved_at": "<string>",
      "closed_at": "<string>",
      "cancelled_at": "<string>"
    }
  }
}
'
{
  "data": {
    "id": "7b8098fb-a780-4088-8bb3-ff3af22ebbe8",
    "type": "incidents",
    "attributes": {
      "parent_incident_id": null,
      "sequential_id": 11,
      "title": "Oh no! Something is broken",
      "slug": "oh-no-something-is-broken",
      "kind": "normal",
      "private": false,
      "summary": "this is the description and there are new lines\n\nthis is the next line\n\nthis is the 3rd line",
      "status": "started",
      "source": "api",
      "url": "http://localhost:3001/account/incidents/11-oh-no-something-is-broken",
      "short_url": null,
      "user": {
        "data": {
          "id": "617",
          "type": "users",
          "attributes": {
            "name": "Marcelene Haley",
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "phone": null,
            "phone_2": null,
            "first_name": "Marcelene",
            "last_name": "Haley",
            "full_name": "Marcelene Haley",
            "full_name_with_team": "[Stanton LLC] Marcelene Haley",
            "slack_id": null,
            "time_zone": "Etc/UTC",
            "updated_at": "2026-01-22T20:40:42.056-08:00",
            "created_at": "2026-01-22T20:40:27.843-08:00"
          },
          "relationships": {
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              "data": [
                {
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                  "type": "user_email_addresses"
                }
              ]
            },
            "phone_numbers": {
              "data": []
            },
            "devices": {
              "data": []
            },
            "role": {
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                "alerts_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "update",
                  "read",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "audits_permissions": [],
                "billing_permissions": [],
                "catalogs_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "communication_permissions": [
                  "read"
                ],
                "created_at": "2026-01-22T20:40:27.946-08:00",
                "deleted_at": null,
                "display_order": 2,
                "edge_connector_permissions": [],
                "environments_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "functionalities_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "groups_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "incident_causes_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "incident_communication_permissions": [
                  "read"
                ],
                "incident_feedbacks_permissions": [
                  "read",
                  "create",
                  "update"
                ],
                "incident_permission_set_id": "293cfdfc-6c32-4eec-bba4-10c37477589f",
                "incident_roles_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "incident_types_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "integrations_permissions": [],
                "invitations_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "is_deletable": false,
                "is_editable": true,
                "name": "user",
                "paging_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "playbooks_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "private_incidents_permissions": [],
                "pulses_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "update",
                  "read"
                ],
                "retrospective_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "roles_permissions": [],
                "secrets_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "services_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "slug": "user",
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
                "sub_statuses_permissions": [
                  "read"
                ],
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                "webhooks_permissions": [],
                "workflows_permissions": [
                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ]
              }
            },
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                "heartbeats_permissions": [],
                "integrations_permissions": [],
                "invitations_permissions": [],
                "live_call_routing_permissions": [],
                "name": "None",
                "on_call_readiness_report_permissions": [],
                "on_call_roles_permissions": [],
                "schedule_override_permissions": [],
                "schedules_permissions": [],
                "services_permissions": [],
                "shift_overrides_permissions": [],
                "slug": "none",
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                "updated_at": "2026-01-22T20:40:27.958-08:00",
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              }
            },
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            },
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              "data": []
            },
            "notification_rules": {
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        }
      },
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            "color": "#E58A1F",
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            "time_zone": "Etc/UTC",
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                ],
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                ],
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                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
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                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "create",
                  "read",
                  "update",
                  "delete"
                ],
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                  "read"
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                ],
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                ],
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                ],
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                ],
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                ],
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                ],
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        "data": []
      },
      "slack_messages": {
        "data": []
      },
      "alerts": {
        "data": []
      }
    }
  }
}

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

incident created

data
object
required