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PUT
/
v1
/
incidents
/
{id}
/
mitigate
Mitigate an incident
curl --request PUT \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incidents/{id}/mitigate \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '{
  "data": {
    "type": "incidents",
    "attributes": {
      "mitigation_message": "<string>"
    }
  }
}'
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        "data": []
      },
      "roles": {
        "data": []
      },
      "environments": {
        "data": []
      },
      "incident_types": {
        "data": []
      },
      "services": {
        "data": []
      },
      "functionalities": {
        "data": []
      },
      "groups": {
        "data": []
      },
      "events": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": "e63f437d-e99b-4824-a29c-74c3e81a2ab2",
            "type": "incident_events"
          },
          {
            "id": "9dfb18b1-2e96-4255-a6b3-fb284eb75326",
            "type": "incident_events"
          },
          {
            "id": "dc384b40-ed7a-4766-83ae-436130cbeb4c",
            "type": "incident_events"
          },
          {
            "id": "44ae7978-1d34-4788-94b3-385c406fcea9",
            "type": "incident_events"
          }
        ]
      },
      "action_items": {
        "data": []
      },
      "custom_field_selections": {
        "data": []
      },
      "feedbacks": {
        "data": []
      },
      "attachments": {
        "data": []
      },
      "slack_messages": {
        "data": []
      }
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

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

Path Parameters

id
required

Resource UUID

Body

application/vnd.api+json
data
object
required

Response

incident mitigated

data
object
required
I