Get incident

GET /incidents/:id

Get incident with status updates and affected monitors.

Auth: Bearer token (read scope)

Request

bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer hu_..." \
  "https://happyuptime.com/api/v1/incidents/inc_847"

Response

json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "inc_847",
    "project_id": "proj_xyz",
    "title": "API latency spike",
    "status": "investigating",
    "severity": "major",
    "started_at": "2026-03-07T14:22:00Z",
    "resolved_at": null,
    "created_at": "2026-03-07T14:22:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-03-07T14:35:00Z",
    "updates": [
      {
        "id": "upd_001",
        "incident_id": "inc_847",
        "status": "investigating",
        "message": "We are investigating elevated API response times.",
        "is_internal": false,
        "created_at": "2026-03-07T14:22:00Z"
      },
      {
        "id": "upd_002",
        "incident_id": "inc_847",
        "status": "identified",
        "message": "Root cause identified: database connection pool exhaustion.",
        "is_internal": false,
        "created_at": "2026-03-07T14:35:00Z"
      }
    ],
    "affected_monitors": [
      {
        "id": "mon_abc123",
        "name": "API Server",
        "status": "degraded"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Status lifecycle

Incidents move through four statuses: