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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced guide
  5. Incidents
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  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. Uptime API
    1. Get an API token
    2. Monitors
    3. Heartbeats
    4. On-call & incidents
    5. Status pages
    6. Metadata
      1. Metadata API
        1. List metadata GET
        2. Get metadata GET
        3. Create metadata POST
        4. Update metadata PATCH
        5. Remove metadata DELETE
        6. Response params
    7. Integrations

Get metadata

Returns a single metadata record.

GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v3/metadata/{metadata_id}

URL parameters

metadata_id
required string

The ID of the metadata record you want to get

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns single metadata

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "123456789",
    "type": "metadata",
    "attributes": {
      "key": "Key 1",
      "values": [{ "type": "String", "value": "Value 1" }, { "type": "String", "value": "Value 2" }]
      "owner_id": "2",
      "owner_type": "Monitor"
    }
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request GET \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v3/metadata/123456789 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

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