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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
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    3. Customizing monitors
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  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started with on-call
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
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  5. Incidents
    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
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  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
    3. Audit logs
    4. Migrating to pay as you go
  9. API
    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
    2. On-call calendar events
    3. Escalation policies
    4. Escalation policy groups
    5. Severities
    6. Severity groups
    7. Incidents
    8. Comments
  12. Integrations API
    1. New Relic Integrations
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    10. Slack Integrations
    11. Outgoing Webhook integrations
    12. Splunk On-Call integrations
    13. PagerDuty Integrations
  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
      1. List existing sections of a status page GET
      2. Get single status page section GET
      3. Create a new status page section POST
      4. Update an existing status page section PATCH
      5. Delete an existing status page section DELETE
      6. Status pages sections API response params
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

Create a new status page section

Returns a newly created status page section.

POST https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/status-pages/{status_page_id}/sections

URL parameters

status_page_id
required string

The ID of your status page

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Content_Type
string

application/json

Body parameters

name
string

The name of the section. Leave blank to hide the section header.

position
integer

The position of this resource on your status page, indexed from zero. If you don't specify a position, we add the resource to the end of the status page. When you specify a position of an existing resource, we add the resource to this position and shift resources below to accommodate.

201

Response body

{
  "id": "12345",
  "type": "status_page_section",
  "attributes": {
    "name": "EU Datacenter",
    "position": 0
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request POST \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/status-pages/123456789/sections \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "name": "EU Datacenter",
    "position": 0
}'

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