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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started with on-call
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced on-call setup
  5. Incidents
    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started with status pages
    2. Working with status pages
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
  9. API
    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
      1. List all existing heartbeats GET
      2. Get a single heartbeat GET
      3. Create a heartbeat POST
      4. Update existing heartbeat PATCH
      5. Delete existing heartbeat DELETE
      6. Heartbeats API response params
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
    2. Escalation policies
    3. Incidents
  12. Integrations API
    1. Email integrations
    2. Incoming webhooks
  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

Create a heartbeat

Returns either a newly created heartbeat, or validation errors.

POST https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/heartbeats

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TEAM_TOKEN

Content-type
String

application/json

Body parameters

name
string

The name of the service for this heartbeat.

period
integer

How often should we expect this heartbeat? In seconds Minimum value: 30 seconds

grace
integer

Heartbeats can fluctuate; specify this value to control what is still acceptable Minimum value: 0 seconds We recommend setting this to approx. 20% of period

call
boolean

Should we call the on-call person?

sms
boolean

Should we send an SMS to the on-call person?

email
boolean

Should we send an email to the on-call person?

push
boolean

Should we send a push notification to the on-call person?

team-wait
integer

How long should we wait before escalating the incident alert to the team? Leave blank to disable escalating to the entire team.

heartbeat_group_id
integer

Set this attribute if you want to add this heartbeat to a heartbeat group

sort_index
integer

An index controlling the position of a heartbeat in the heartbeat group.

paused
boolean

Set to true to pause monitoring — we won't notify you about downtime. Set to false to resume monitoring

policy_id
integer

Set the escalation policy for the monitor.

201

Returns a newly created heartbeat

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "12345",
    "type": "heartbeat",
    "attributes": {
      "url": "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v1/heartbeat/abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234",
      "name": "Testing heartbeat",
      "period": 10800,
      "grace": 300,
      "call": false,
      "sms": false,
      "email": true,
      "push": true,
      "team_wait": 180,
      "heartbeat_group_id": null,
      "sort_index": null,
      "paused_at": null,
      "created_at": "2020-05-05T11:41:49.327Z",
      "updated_at": "2020-12-10T15:00:15.089Z"
    }
  }
}
422

Validation failed

Response body

{
  "errors": {
    "name": [
      "Can't be blank."
    ]
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request POST \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/heartbeats \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TEAM_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "name": "Testing heartbeat",
    "period": 10800,
    "grace": 300
}'

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