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  11. On-call & Incidents API
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  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
      1. List all existing status updates for a status page report GET
      2. Get a single status update GET
      3. Create a new status update POST
      4. Update an existing status update PATCH
      5. Delete an existing status update DELETE
      6. Status page report updates API response params
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

Create a new status update

Returns the newly created status page report update.

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

URL parameters

status_page_id
required string

The ID of your status page

status_report_id
required string

The ID of your status page report

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Content_Type
string

application/json

Body parameters

message
string

A message associated with the status update

notify_subscribers
boolean

Whether or not to send a notification email to subscribers of the status page. Default: false

affected_resources
required array of objects

An array of objects, where each object contains status_page_resource_id and status attributes. status_page_resource_id - The ID of the status page resource which you want to affect. status - Has to be maintenance if report_type is set to maintenance. Otherwise has to be one of resolved, degraded or downtime.

published_at
string

The time that will show as the time that the status update was published at (formatted in ISO-8601). Default: current time

201

Return the newly created status page report update

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "123456",
    "type": "status_update",
    "attributes": {
      "message": "First status update message",
      "published_at": "2021-12-16T16:04:09.880Z",
      "notify_subscribers": false,
      "status_report_id": 12345,
      "affected_resources": [
        {
          "status_page_resource_id": "12345",
          "status": "degraded"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request POST \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/status-pages/123456/status-reports/12345/status-updates \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "message": "First status update message",
    "affected_resources": [{"status_page_resource_id": "12345", "status": "degraded"}]
}'

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