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    1. Metadata

Create a new comment

This will create a new comment.

POST https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents/{incident_id}/comments

URL parameters

incident_id
required string

The ID of the incident

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Content_Type
string

application/json

Body parameters

content
required string

The content of the comment

201

The comment was successfully created

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "1",
    "type": "incident_comment",
    "attributes": {
      "id": 1,
      "content": "posted from API"
    }
  }
}
403

Authentication failed

Example cURL

Example
curl --request POST \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents/1/comments \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"content": "posted from API"}'

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