Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>
, where <token>
is your auth token.
Body
application/vnd.api+json
Response
incident_type created
Creates a new incident_type from provided data
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incident_types \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
--data '{
"data": {
"type": "incident_types",
"attributes": {
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"color": "<string>",
"position": 123,
"notify_emails": [
"<string>"
],
"slack_channels": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
}
],
"slack_aliases": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
}
]
}
}
}'
{
"data": {
"id": "724bfb02-c44b-4244-9088-7d9a935ef0fd",
"type": "incident_types",
"attributes": {
"slug": "bug",
"name": "Bug",
"description": "Bug caused by a human",
"color": "#FFF",
"position": 1,
"notify_emails": [
"hello@rootly.com",
"world@rootly.com"
],
"slack_channels": [
{
"id": "C03MKDSEJE8",
"name": "elastisearch"
}
],
"slack_aliases": [
{
"id": "S03F7QUV7F1",
"name": "leadership"
}
],
"created_at": "2025-10-03T19:38:39.967-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-10-03T19:38:39.967-07:00"
}
}
}
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>
, where <token>
is your auth token.
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curl --request POST \
--url https://api.rootly.com/v1/incident_types \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
--data '{
"data": {
"type": "incident_types",
"attributes": {
"name": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"color": "<string>",
"position": 123,
"notify_emails": [
"<string>"
],
"slack_channels": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
}
],
"slack_aliases": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>"
}
]
}
}
}'
{
"data": {
"id": "724bfb02-c44b-4244-9088-7d9a935ef0fd",
"type": "incident_types",
"attributes": {
"slug": "bug",
"name": "Bug",
"description": "Bug caused by a human",
"color": "#FFF",
"position": 1,
"notify_emails": [
"hello@rootly.com",
"world@rootly.com"
],
"slack_channels": [
{
"id": "C03MKDSEJE8",
"name": "elastisearch"
}
],
"slack_aliases": [
{
"id": "S03F7QUV7F1",
"name": "leadership"
}
],
"created_at": "2025-10-03T19:38:39.967-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-10-03T19:38:39.967-07:00"
}
}
}