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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 & collectors
    3. Dashboards
      1. Dashboards API
      2. Charts API
      3. Dashboard sections API
      4. Dashboard alerts API
        1. List dashboard alerts GET
        2. Get a single alert GET
        3. Create an alert POST
        4. Update an alert PATCH
        5. Remove an alert DELETE
      5. Dashboard groups API
    4. Explorations
    5. Alerts API
    6. Connections API
    7. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Update an dashboard alert

Updates an existing alert on a dashboard chart. You only need to provide the fields you want to change.

PATCH https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/{dashboard_id}/charts/{chart_id}/alerts/{id}

URL parameters

dashboard_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the dashboard.

chart_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the chart.

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 or percentage value.

paused
boolean

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

escalation_target
object

A new escalation target configuration.

200

The alert was updated successfully.

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "789",
    "type": "alert",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Updated Alert Name",
      "value": 150.0
    }
  }
}
404

The specified dashboard, chart, or alert was not found.

Example Request

cURL
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/123/charts/456/alerts/789 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "name": "Updated Alert Name",
    "value": 150.0
  }'


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