Add status update
Post a new status update on an existing incident.
Add status update
POST /incidents/:id/updates
Add a status update to an incident. Customer-facing updates are shown on the status page and emailed to subscribers.
Auth: Bearer token (write scope)
Body parameters
Update message (shown to subscribers).
New status: investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved.
Internal note — if true, the update is not shown on the public status page.
Request
bashcurl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer hu_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "message": "Fix deployed, monitoring recovery.", "status": "monitoring" }' \ "https://happyuptime.com/api/v1/incidents/inc_847/updates"
Response
json{ "data": { "id": "upd_003", "incident_id": "inc_847", "status": "monitoring", "message": "Fix deployed, monitoring recovery.", "is_internal": false, "created_at": "2026-03-07T15:45:00Z" }}