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    1. Metadata

List all incidents

List all incidents with the option to filter incidents by monitor. This endpoint supports pagination with default of 10 per page and maximum of 50.

GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents

Query parameters

from
date

Return only incidents from a certain date (format YYYY-MM-DD)

to
date

Return incidents until a certain date (format YYYY-MM-DD)

monitor_id
integer

Filter incidents belonging to a specified monitor

heartbeat_id
integer

Filter incidents belonging to a specified heartbeat

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns list of existing incidents

Response body

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "25",
      "type": "incident",
      "attributes": {
        "name": "uptime homepage",
        "url": "https://uptime.betterstack.com/",
        "http_method": "get",
        "cause": "Status 404",
        "incident_group_id": null,
        "started_at": "2020-03-09T17:37:56.662Z",
        "acknowledged_at": null,
        "acknowledged_by": null,
        "resolved_at": null,
        "resolved_by": null,
        "status": "Started",
        "team_name": "Testing team",
        "response_content": "\n404 Not Found\n\nNot Found\nThe requested URL /fail was not found on this server.\n",
        "response_options": "{}",
        "regions": [
          "us",
          "eu",
          "as",
          "au"
        ],
        "response_url": null,
        "screenshot_url": null,
        "origin_url": null,
        "escalation_policy_id": null,
        "call": true,
        "sms": true,
        "email": true,
        "push": true,
        "metadata": {
          "Request duration": "0.036304",
          "Response code": "404"
        }
      },
      "relationships": {
        "monitor": {
          "data": {
            "id": "2",
            "type": "monitor"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "23",
      "type": "incident",
      "attributes": {
        "name": "disk usage monitoring",
        "url": null,
        "http_method": null,
        "cause": "Disk space usage high",
        "incident_group_id": null,
        "started_at": "2020-03-04T13:30:45.583Z",
        "acknowledged_at": "2020-03-04T13:32:14.121Z",
        "acknowledged_by": "John Smith",
        "resolved_at": "2020-03-04T14:21:17.137Z",
        "resolved_by": "John Smith",
        "status": "Resolved",
        "team_name": "Testing team",
        "response_content": null,
        "response_options": null,
        "regions": null,
        "response_url": null,
        "screenshot_url": null,
        "origin_url": null,
        "escalation_policy_id": null,
        "call": false,
        "sms": false,
        "email": true,
        "push": true,
        "metadata": {
        }
      },
      "relationships": {
        "webhook_integration": {
          "data": {
            "id": "30579",
            "type": "webhook_integration"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "first": "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents?page=1",
    "last": "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents?page=4",
    "prev": null,
    "next": "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents?page=2"
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl --request GET \
  --url "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/incidents?from=2021-01-01&to=2021-01-31" \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer $TOKEN'

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