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POST
/
v1
/
services
Creates a service
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.rootly.com/v1/services \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  --data '{
  "data": {
    "type": "services",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "public_description": "<string>",
      "notify_emails": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "color": "<string>",
      "position": 123,
      "show_uptime": true,
      "show_uptime_last_days": 60,
      "backstage_id": "<string>",
      "pagerduty_id": "<string>",
      "external_id": "<string>",
      "opsgenie_id": "<string>",
      "opsgenie_team_id": "<string>",
      "cortex_id": "<string>",
      "service_now_ci_sys_id": "<string>",
      "github_repository_name": "<string>",
      "github_repository_branch": "<string>",
      "gitlab_repository_name": "<string>",
      "gitlab_repository_branch": "<string>",
      "environment_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "service_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "owner_group_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "owner_user_ids": [
        123
      ],
      "alerts_email_enabled": true,
      "alert_urgency_id": "<string>",
      "slack_channels": [
        {
          "id": "<string>",
          "name": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "slack_aliases": [
        {
          "id": "<string>",
          "name": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "alert_broadcast_enabled": true,
      "alert_broadcast_channel": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "name": "<string>"
      },
      "incident_broadcast_enabled": true,
      "incident_broadcast_channel": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "name": "<string>"
      }
    }
  }
}'
{
  "data": {
    "id": "c2d2b862-8d2a-4fa9-81ad-ee2eccfc8009",
    "type": "services",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "elasticsearch-prod",
      "slug": "elasticsearch-prod",
      "description": "Elastisearch",
      "public_description": "Public description",
      "notify_emails": [
        "john@rootly.com",
        "doe@rootly.com"
      ],
      "color": "#FFF",
      "status": "operational",
      "position": 1,
      "show_uptime": true,
      "show_uptime_last_days": 60,
      "slack_channels": [
        {
          "id": "C03MKDSEJE8",
          "name": "elastisearch"
        }
      ],
      "slack_aliases": [
        {
          "id": "S03F7QUV7F1",
          "name": "engineering"
        }
      ],
      "github_repository_name": "rootlyhq/my-github-service",
      "github_repository_branch": "main",
      "gitlab_repository_name": "rootlyhq/my-gitlab-service",
      "gitlab_repository_branch": "main",
      "opsgenie_id": "8743a1b2-11da-480e-8493-744660987bef",
      "pagerduty_id": "PQ9K7I8",
      "backstage_id": null,
      "external_id": "d795fe69-acc2-4b30-92c9-3c25cbb92056",
      "cortex_id": null,
      "service_now_ci_sys_id": null,
      "environment_ids": [
        "7fd2aeba-fa41-4836-9444-134be784c925"
      ],
      "service_ids": [
        "d3a67779-6c53-487a-912b-68c3908baa0a"
      ],
      "owner_group_ids": [
        "5db54a3f-0a9f-484a-84ea-4c47d42edd0c"
      ],
      "owners_group_ids": [
        "5db54a3f-0a9f-484a-84ea-4c47d42edd0c"
      ],
      "owner_user_ids": [
        522
      ],
      "owners_user_ids": [
        522
      ],
      "incidents_count": 0,
      "alert_urgency_id": null,
      "alerts_email_enabled": true,
      "alerts_email_address": "service-c97da77e0af4844c1d14c7209159197f@test.email.rootly.com",
      "alert_broadcast_enabled": true,
      "alert_broadcast_channel": {
        "id": "C789ALERT",
        "name": "service-alerts"
      },
      "incident_broadcast_enabled": false,
      "incident_broadcast_channel": {},
      "created_at": "2025-11-27T00:12:42.089-08:00",
      "updated_at": "2025-11-27T00:12:42.089-08:00"
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

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

Body

application/vnd.api+json
​
data
object
required

Response

service created

​
data
object
required