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  1. Welcome to Better Uptime 👋
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
  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
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started with status pages
    2. Working with status pages
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Uptime
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
  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. Escalation policies
    3. Incidents
  12. Integrations API
    1. Email Integrations
    2. Incoming Webhooks
  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

Get started with Better Uptime API

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How Better Uptime API works

Our API follows JSON:API  specification.

API requests made to Better Uptime API are authorized using a Bearer Authentication standard  . That means you'll only need to add a header with Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN to your requests.

API tokens are scoped per team. That means you'll get a separate API token for each of your teams.

Obtaining a Better Uptime API Token:

  • Go to Integrations
  • Go to the APIs tab
  • Click Copy to clipboard in the You'll need your API Token section

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Please note that Better Uptime has a separate API token from Logtail. You can obtain your Logtail API token here.

Have any questions?

Please consult our easy-to-navigate Frequently Asked Questions.

Haven't found what you were looking for? Please feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected]. We'll get back to you as soon as we can, typically within a few hours. 🙏 Thank you!

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