Incidents

Down events and flap events are recorded as incidents. A monitor that goes down opens a down incident, which closes by setting resolved_at when the monitor recovers — recovery does NOT spawn a separate row. Flap events open a flapping incident that resolves the same way.

The API exposes a queryable log so you can build status pages, post-mortem timelines, or pipe incidents into your own alerting.

Retention is 30 days — incidents older than that are dropped from the table. For longer history, capture incidents to your own store via webhooks.

List incidents

curl https://api.uptimemonitoring.com/api/v1/incidents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UPTIMEMONITORING_API_KEY"

Ordered newest first. Supports filtering and pagination via query parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
monitor_id	integer	Restrict to incidents for one monitor.
type	string	down or flapping.
started_after	RFC3339 datetime	Only incidents started strictly after this time.
started_before	RFC3339 datetime	Only incidents started strictly before this time.
limit	integer (1–100)	Page size. Default 50. Out-of-range values return 400 limit must be between 1 and 100.
offset	integer	Skip the first N results. Default 0.

Response shape:

{
  "incidents": [
    {
      "id": 4422,
      "monitor_id": 1287,
      "account_id": 14,
      "type": "down",
      "started_at": "2026-05-07T09:14:02Z",
      "resolved_at": "2026-05-07T09:18:51Z",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "region": "EU",
          "timestamp": "2026-05-07T09:14:01Z",
          "status_code": 503,
          "ttfb_ms": 2143
        },
        {
          "region": "US",
          "timestamp": "2026-05-07T09:14:00Z",
          "status_code": 503,
          "ttfb_ms": 2087
        }
      ],
      "created_at": "2026-05-07T09:14:02Z"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0
}

resolved_at is absent (the key is omitted from the JSON object) while the incident is still ongoing; it appears once the monitor recovers. total reports the count of incidents matching the supplied filters (monitor_id, type, started_after, started_before) — paginate against this number, not the entire 30-day window.

Get an incident

curl https://api.uptimemonitoring.com/api/v1/incidents/4422 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UPTIMEMONITORING_API_KEY"

The response wraps the incident under an incident key:

{
  "incident": {
    "id": 4422,
    "monitor_id": 1287,
    "account_id": 14,
    "type": "down",
    "started_at": "2026-05-07T09:14:02Z",
    "resolved_at": "2026-05-07T09:18:51Z",
    "evidence": [],
    "created_at": "2026-05-07T09:14:02Z"
  }
}

A non-numeric ID returns 400 invalid incident ID. A numeric-but-missing ID returns 404 incident not found.

Incident types

type	Meaning
down	Monitor transitioned from up to down. Resolves when it transitions back to up.
flapping	Monitor crossed the flap threshold (more than 10 transitions per hour). Resolves when traffic stabilises.

The up type is reserved for future use and is not currently emitted.