---
title: "Create Component Group"
method: POST
path: "/component-groups"
tags: ["Component Groups"]
---

# Create Component Group

`POST /component-groups`

## Request body

- CreateComponentGroupRequestData
  - `name` string, required
  - `order` integer, nullable
  - `visible` 0 | 1 | 2
  - `collapsed` 0 | 1 | 2
  - `order_column` 'id' | 'last_updated' | 'name' | 'manual' | 'status'
  - `order_direction` 'asc' | 'desc'
  - `components` integer[], nullable
  - `meta` object, nullable

## Response `200`

`ComponentGroup`

## Other responses

- `401` — Unauthenticated
- `403` — Authorization error
- `422` — Validation error

## Changes

> 30 revisions in range; 7 could not be searched.

- **2026-07-13** `408fd86def03` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - the response property `included/items/attributes/meta` became optional for the status `200`
  - added the new optional request property `meta`
  - added the optional property `data/attributes/meta` to the response with the `200` status
- **2026-07-10** `02682dfc9449` — 3 warning, 3 info
  - added the new `Major outage` enum value to the `included/items/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the new `Partial outage` enum value to the `included/items/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the new `Performance issues` enum value to the `included/items/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - removed the `Major Outage` enum value from the `included/items/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - …2 more
- **2026-07-10** `4e4308be5bcf` — 22 breaking, 5 info
  - the request property `collapsed` became not nullable
  - the request property `order_column` became not nullable
  - the request property `order_direction` became not nullable
  - the request property `visible` became not nullable
  - …23 more
- …earlier changes not shown

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/cachethq/apis/cachet/changes/component-groups/post.md)

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