---
title: "Post a staged update against an incident, advancing its lifecycle status"
method: POST
path: "/incidents/{id}/updates"
tags: ["Incidents"]
---

# Post a staged update against an incident, advancing its lifecycle status

`POST /incidents/{id}/updates`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://realuptime.io/api/v1`
- URL: `https://realuptime.io/api/v1/incidents/{id}/updates`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- object
  - `status` 'investigating' | 'identified' | 'monitoring' | 'resolved', required
  - `body` string, required
  - `force` boolean

## Response `201`

The created update. Sends email to confirmed subscribers unless deduped.

- object
  - `update` object, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `incident_id` string, required
    - `status` 'investigating' | 'identified' | 'monitoring' | 'resolved', required
    - `body` string, required
    - `created_at` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Malformed body. - `RU-5001` Invalid incident request: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-5001
- `401`: Missing, invalid, or revoked API key. - `RU-1001` Missing API credentials: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-1001 - `RU-1002` Invalid or revoked API key: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-1002
- `403`: This key is read-only, or this key is IP-restricted and the request came from outside its allowlist. - `RU-1004` API key is read-only: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-1004 - `RU-1007` API key is restricted to an IP allowlist: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-1007
- `404`: No such incident on this account. - `RU-5002` Incident not found or not creatable: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-5002
- `409`: Resolving over a live outage without force: true. - `RU-5003` Incident conflicts with live outage state: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-5003
- `429`: Per-key rate limit exceeded, a Free account's per-account request budget exceeded, or too many failed authentication attempts. - `RU-2003` API write rate limit exceeded: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-2003 - `RU-2001` Too many failed authentication attempts: https://realuptime.io/kb/errors/ru-2001

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