Create an Incident Type

Create a new incident type.

Incident Types are a feature which will allow customers to categorize incidents, such as a security incident, a major incident, or a fraud incident.

For more information see the API Concepts Document

Scoped OAuth requires: incident_types.write

Authorization

api_key

Authorization<token>

The API Key with format Token token=<API_KEY>

In: header

Header Parameters

Accept*string

The Accept header is used as a versioning header.

Default"application/vnd.pagerduty+json;version=2"

Content-Type*"application/json"

Default"application/json"

Value in

"application/json"

Request Body

application/json

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

incident_type*

Details of the incident type to be created.

Response Body

`application/json`

curl -X POST "https://api.pagerduty.com/incidents/types" \  -H "Accept: application/vnd.pagerduty+json;version=2" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "incident_type": {      "name": "fraud_incident",      "display_name": "Fraud Incident",      "parent_type": "incident_default"    }  }'

{  "incident_type": {    "enabled": true,    "id": "P234567",    "name": "fraud_incident",    "parent": {      "id": "P123456",      "type": "incident_type_reference"    },    "type": "incident_type",    "description": null,    "created_at": "2023-05-31T13:41:47Z",    "updated_at": "2023-07-31T13:41:47Z",    "display_name": "Fraud Incident"  }}

Create an Incident Type

Authorization

Header Parameters

Request Body

Response Body

201application/json

400application/json

401application/json

403application/json

404application/json

500application/json

`application/json`

`application/json`

`application/json`

`application/json`

`application/json`

`application/json`