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  1. Welcome to Telemetry 👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Wide events vs. metrics
  4. Ingesting data
    1. Better Stack collector
    2. Vector
    3. OpenTelemetry
    4. Ingesting via HTTP API
    5. Ingesting metrics
    6. Ingesting logs
    7. Migrating to Better Stack
  5. Using the product
    1. AI SRE ↗
    2. MCP server ↗
    3. Transforming ingested data
    4. Querying data
    5. Tracing
    6. Alerts
  6. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources API
    3. Source groups API
    4. Metrics API
    5. Dashboards API
    6. Explorations API
    7. Exploration groups API
    8. Alerts API
      1. List alerts in exploration GET
      2. Get a single alert GET
      3. Create an alert POST
      4. Update an alert PATCH
      5. Remove an alert DELETE
    9. Connections API
    10. Collectors API
    11. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Update an alert

Updates an existing alert by its ID. You only need to provide the fields you want to change.

PATCH https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/explorations/{exploration_id}/alerts/{id}

URL parameters

exploration_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the exploration.

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the alert to update.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Body parameters

name
string

A new name for the alert.

value
number

A new threshold value.

confirmation_period
integer

A new confirmation delay in seconds.

paused
boolean

Set to true to pause the alert or false to resume it.

escalation_target
object

A new escalation target configuration.

metadata
object

A new set of key-value metadata. This will replace all existing metadata.

200

The alert was updated successfully.

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": 789,
    "type": "alert",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "High Error Rate Alert",
      "alert_type": "threshold",
      "operator": "higher_than",
      "value": 150.0,
      "query_period": 300,
      "confirmation_period": 60,
      "recovery_period": 300,
      "escalation_target": {
        "policy_id": 123
      },
      "paused": false,
      "created_at": "2026-02-20T10:00:00Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-02-24T15:00:00Z"
    }
  }
}
404

The specified exploration or alert was not found.

Example Request

cURL
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/explorations/123/alerts/789 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "value": 150.0,
    "confirmation_period": 60
  }'


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