---
title: "Submit Incident for Processing"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/incidents"
tags: ["incident-submission"]
---

# Submit Incident for Processing

`POST /api/v1/incidents`

Submit a new incident (NvSchema) for processing and publish to Kafka. Accepts NvSchema Incident JSON (default) or a serialized Protobuf Incident (set Content-Type: application/x-protobuf).

## Request body

- object
  - `id` string, required
  - `timestamp` string, date-time, required
  - `end` string, date-time
  - `sensorId` string, required
  - `category` string
  - `info` object
  - `event` object

## Response `202`

Incident accepted and queued

- AlertSubmissionResponse — HTTP response schema for successful alert submission.
  - `status` string, required — Submission status
  - `id` string, required — Original event ID (used for correlation)
  - `message` string, required — Human-readable status message
  - `timestamp` string, required — Processing timestamp (ISO 8601)

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid Protobuf payload
- `422` — Invalid JSON body
- `500` — Internal server error

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