Get started with Incidents API

How Incidents API works

Our API follows the JSON:API specification.

API requests to the Incidents API are authorized using the Bearer Authentication standard. Simply include an Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN header in your requests.

Get a global API token

A global API token is a token valid across all your teams, for managing anything within Better Stack.

• Go to Better Stack → API tokens.
• Copy existing or create new tokens in Global API tokens section.

Get an Incidents API token

An Incidents API token is a team-scoped token for managing your Incidents resources. You can get a separate API token for each of your teams.

• Go to Better Stack → API tokens -> Team-based tokens.
• Select your team.
  
• Copy an existing token or create a new one in the Incidents API tokens section.
  

Terraform support

You can manage your Better Stack resources using Terraform.

Pagination

Lists come in pages, with a pagination object in the response body. To go through every page, request the URL in pagination.next until it's null. To get a specific page, pass the page query parameter.

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors?page=3&per_page=20" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "41",
      "type": "monitor",
      "attributes": {
        monitor's attributes omitted...
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "42",
      "type": "monitor",
      "attributes": {
        monitor's attributes omitted...
      }
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "first": "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors?page=1&per_page=20",
    "last": "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors?page=3&per_page=20",
    "prev": "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors?page=2&per_page=20",
    "next": null
  }
}

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