---
title: "Create Incident"
method: POST
path: "/incidents"
tags: ["Incidents"]
---

# Create Incident

`POST /incidents`

## Request body

- CreateIncidentRequestData
  - `name` string, required
  - `status` 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4, required
  - `message` string, nullable
  - `template` string, nullable
  - `visible` boolean
  - `stickied` boolean
  - `notifications` boolean
  - `occurred_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `published_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `template_vars` string[]
  - `component_id` integer, nullable
  - `component_status` 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
  - `components` IncidentComponentRequestData[], nullable
    - `id` integer, required
    - `status` 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6, required
  - `tags` string[]
  - `meta` object, nullable

## Response `200`

`Incident`

## 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/anyOf[subschema #1: Component]/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/anyOf[subschema #1: Component]/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the new `Partial outage` enum value to the `included/items/anyOf[subschema #1: Component]/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the new `Performance issues` enum value to the `included/items/anyOf[subschema #1: Component]/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - removed the `Major Outage` enum value from the `included/items/anyOf[subschema #1: Component]/attributes/status/human` response property for the response status `200`
  - …2 more
- **2026-07-10** `4e4308be5bcf` — 30 breaking, 13 info
  - the request property `component_status` became not nullable
  - removed the enum value `0` of the request property `status`
  - removed the enum value `1` of the request property `component_status`
  - removed the enum value `1` of the request property `components/items/status`
  - …39 more
- …earlier changes not shown

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

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