---
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
  - `message` string, nullable
  - `template` string, nullable
  - `visible` boolean
  - `stickied` boolean
  - `notifications` boolean
  - `occurred_at` string, nullable
  - `template_vars` string[]
  - `component_id` integer, nullable
  - `component_status` 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

## Response `200`

`Incident`

## Other responses

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

## Changes

- **2025-08-15** `5b3f1f21cf76` — 1 info
  - media type `application/json` was changed to a more specific media type `application/vnd.api+json` for the response status `200`
- **2025-06-02** `9ad32c73fe39` — 8 breaking, 3 warning
  - the response property `data/attributes/component_id` became nullable for the status `200`
  - the `data/attributes/component_id` response's property type changed from `string` to `integer, null` for status `200`
  - the `data/attributes/id` response's property type changed from `string` to `integer` for status `200`
  - the `data/attributes/notifications` response's property type changed from `string` to `integer` for status `200`
  - …7 more
- **2025-05-29** `87e56b3f8fd7` — 1 warning
  - removed the optional property `data/relationships/user/data/attributes` from the response with the `200` status

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

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