---
title: "Get an incident's timeline"
method: GET
path: "/incidents/{incident}/timeline"
tags: ["Incidents"]
---

# Get an incident's timeline

`GET /incidents/{incident}/timeline`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.spectate.net/v1`
- URL: `https://api.spectate.net/v1/incidents/{incident}/timeline`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Everything that happened, newest first: declaring, updates, status and severity changes,
roles, acknowledging and resolving, with who did it.

## Path parameters

- `incident` string, uuid, required

## Query parameters

- `page` integer
- `per_page` integer

## Response `200`

Paginated set of `IncidentTimelineEntry`

- object
  - `current_page` integer, required
  - `data` IncidentTimelineEntry[], required
    - `description` string, required: What happened
    - `actor` string, nullable, required: Who did it: a member's name, `API token "…"`, or Spectate staff; `null` for Spectate itself
    - `actor_type` 'user' | 'api_token' | 'employee', required: Who caused an activity log entry. | | |---| | `user` <br/> A team member. | | `api_token` <br/> A team API token. | | `employee` <br/> Spectate staff. |
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required: When it happened
  - `first_page_url` string, nullable, required
  - `from` integer, nullable, required
  - `last_page_url` string, nullable, required
  - `last_page` integer, required
  - `links` object[], required: Generated paginator links.
    - `url` string, nullable, required
    - `label` string, required
    - `active` boolean, required
  - `next_page_url` string, nullable, required
  - `path` string, nullable, required: Base path for paginator generated URLs.
  - `per_page` integer, required: Number of items shown per page.
  - `prev_page_url` string, nullable, required
  - `to` integer, nullable, required: Number of the last item in the slice.
  - `total` integer, required: Total number of items being paginated.

## Other responses

- `401`: `UNAUTHENTICATED`: no token was sent. `INVALID_TOKEN`: the token is unknown or revoked. `TOKEN_EXPIRED`: the token has expired.
- `403`: `FORBIDDEN`: the token lacks an ability this endpoint requires (listed in `details.required_abilities`). `TEAM_PENDING_DELETION`: the team is scheduled for deletion. `TEAM_SUSPENDED`: Spectate suspended the team.
- `404`: `RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND`: there is no such resource in this team.
- `429`: `RATE_LIMITED`: too many requests for this token. Wait for the number of seconds in `Retry-After`.

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