POST /incident_workflows/{id}/instances

Start an Instance of an Incident Workflow. Sometimes referred to as "triggering a workflow on an incident."

An Incident Workflow is a sequence of configurable Steps and associated Triggers that can execute automated Actions for a given Incident.

Scoped OAuth requires: incident_workflows:instances.write

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
id String Yes

The ID of the resource.

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Accept String Yes

The Accept header is used as a versioning header.

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

Content-Type String Yes

Possible values:

  • "application/json"

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
incident_workflow_instance Object Yes
incident_workflow_instance.incident Object No
incident_workflow_instance.incident.type String No

Possible values:

  • "incident_reference"

How to start integrating

  1. Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
  2. Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.