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Get comment

This will return an existing comment.

GET https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents/{incident_id}/comments/{comment_id}

URL parameters

incident_id
required string

The ID of the incident

comment_id
required string

The ID of the comment

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Content-Type
string

application/json

200

Returns a single comment

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "1",
    "type": "incident_comment",
    "attributes": {
      "id": 1,
      "content": "content",
      "user_id": 123,
      "user_email": "test@example.com",
      "created_at": "2025-06-03T12:10:28.357Z",
      "updated_at": "2025-06-03T12:10:28.357Z"
    }
  }
}
404

Comment or incident was not found

Response attributes

id
string

The ID of the comment.

type
string

Always incident_comment.

attributes.id
integer

The ID of the comment, as a number.

attributes.content
string

The text of the comment.

attributes.user_id
integer

The ID of the user who posted the comment, left out when no user posted it, for example a comment added with an API token.

attributes.user_email
string

The e-mail address of the user who posted the comment, left out together with user_id.

attributes.created_at
string

When the comment was posted, in ISO 8601 format.

attributes.updated_at
string

When the comment was last changed, in ISO 8601 format.

Example cURL

Example
curl --url https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents/1/comments/1 \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json'


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