Update alert event

Updates a specific alert event. Only alert events with kind ‘note’ (user-created notes) can be updated. System-generated events are immutable to maintain audit trail integrity.

PATCH /v1/alert_events/{id}

Update alert event

cURL

curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '
{
  "data": {
    "type": "alert_events",
    "attributes": {
      "details": "<string>",
      "user_id": 123
    }
  }
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}"

payload = { "data": {
        "type": "alert_events",
        "attributes": {
            "details": "<string>",
            "user_id": 123
        }
    } }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/vnd.api+json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.api+json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({data: {type: 'alert_events', attributes: {details: '<string>', user_id: 123}}})
};

fetch('https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'data' => [
        'type' => 'alert_events',
        'attributes' => [
                'details' => '<string>',
                'user_id' => 123
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"data\": {\n    \"type\": \"alert_events\",\n    \"attributes\": {\n      \"details\": \"<string>\",\n      \"user_id\": 123\n    }\n  }\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/vnd.api+json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/vnd.api+json")
  .body("{\n  \"data\": {\n    \"type\": \"alert_events\",\n    \"attributes\": {\n      \"details\": \"<string>\",\n      \"user_id\": 123\n    }\n  }\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.rootly.com/v1/alert_events/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/vnd.api+json'
request.body = "{\n  \"data\": {\n    \"type\": \"alert_events\",\n    \"attributes\": {\n      \"details\": \"<string>\",\n      \"user_id\": 123\n    }\n  }\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "type": "alert_events",
    "attributes": {
      "alert_id": "<string>",
      "source": "<string>",
      "created_at": "<string>",
      "updated_at": "<string>",
      "user_id": 123,
      "details": "<string>",
      "user": {
        "id": 123,
        "name": "<string>",
        "email": "<string>",
        "created_at": "<string>",
        "updated_at": "<string>",
        "first_name": "<string>",
        "last_name": "<string>",
        "preferred_name": "<string>",
        "full_name": "<string>",
        "time_zone": "<string>"
      },
      "incident": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "sequential_id": 123,
        "title": "<string>",
        "slug": "<string>",
        "kind": "<string>",
        "status": "<string>",
        "private": true,
        "description": "<string>",
        "started_at": "<string>",
        "duration": 123,
        "url": "<string>",
        "created_at": "<string>",
        "updated_at": "<string>"
      },
      "schedule": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "name": "<string>",
        "description": "<string>",
        "escalation_policies": [
          {
            "id": "<string>",
            "name": "<string>",
            "created_at": "<string>",
            "updated_at": "<string>"
          }
        ],
        "created_at": "<string>",
        "updated_at": "<string>"
      },
      "escalation_level": 123,
      "escalation_target_type": "<string>",
      "escalation_target": {
        "data": {
          "id": "<string>",
          "type": "<string>",
          "attributes": {}
        }
      },
      "slack_channel": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "slack_channel_name": "<string>",
        "slack_channel_id": "<string>",
        "slack_team_id": "<string>",
        "created_at": "<string>",
        "updated_at": "<string>"
      },
      "incident_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ]
    }
  },
  "included": [
    {
      "id": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "attributes": {},
      "relationships": {}
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "title": "<string>",
      "status": "<string>",
      "code": "<string>",
      "detail": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Path Parameters

id · string · required

Body

application/vnd.api+json

Update an alert event. Note: Only alert events with kind='note' can be updated. You cannot change the kind field.

data · object · required

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Response

200

application/vnd.api+json

alert event updated

data · object · required

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included · object[]

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