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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
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  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
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    1. Get started with status pages
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  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
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    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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    4. Azure Integrations
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    12. Splunk On-Call integrations
    13. PagerDuty Integrations
  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
      1. List all existing metadata GET
      2. Get a single metadata record GET
      3. Create a new metadata record POST
      4. Update an existing metadata record PATCH
      5. Delete an existing metadata record DELETE
      6. Metadata API response params

Get a single metadata record

Returns a single metadata record.

GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/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",
      "value": "value-1"
      "owner_id": "2",
      "owner_type": "Monitor"
    }
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request GET \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/metadata/123456789 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

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