---
title: "Create"
method: POST
path: "/backends/weighted"
tags: ["WeightedBackends"]
---

# Create

`POST /backends/weighted`

Create a new Weighted backend

## Headers

- `ngrok-version` integer, required

## Request body

- WeightedBackendCreate
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this backend. Optional
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this backend. Optional
  - `backends` object — the ids of the child backends to their weights [0-10000]

## Response `201`

Create a new Weighted backend

- WeightedBackend
  - `id` string — unique identifier for this Weighted backend
  - `uri` string — URI of the WeightedBackend API resource
  - `created_at` string — timestamp when the backend was created, RFC 3339 format
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this backend. Optional
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this backend. Optional
  - `backends` object — the ids of the child backends to their weights [0-10000]

## Other responses

- `4XX` — An error. The body carries a machine-readable error_code and a human-readable msg; every code is documented at https://ngrok.com/docs/errors. A 429 with error code ERR_NGROK_226 means the account exceeded the documented request-rate limit.
- `5XX` — An error. The body carries a machine-readable error_code and a human-readable msg; every code is documented at https://ngrok.com/docs/errors. A 429 with error code ERR_NGROK_226 means the account exceeded the documented request-rate limit.

---

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