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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Incident with the Better Stack API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Incident action
1. Connect your Better Stack account
2. Configure Requester Email
3. Configure Summary
4. Optional- Configure Name
5. Optional- Configure Description
6. Optional- Configure Call
7. Optional- Configure SMS
8. Optional- Configure Email
9. Optional- Configure Push
10. Optional- Configure Team Wait
11. Optional- Select a Policy ID
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Incident on Better Stack

Description:Initiates an incident that signals the team. [See the documentation](https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/create-a-new-incident/)

Version:0.0.1

Key:better_stack-create-incident

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Code#

import app from "../../better_stack.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "better_stack-create-incident",
  name: "Create Incident",
  description: "Initiates an incident that signals the team. [See the documentation](https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/create-a-new-incident/)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    app,
    requesterEmail: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Requester Email",
      description: "E-mail of the user who requested the incident",
    },
    summary: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Summary",
      description: "Brief summary of the incident",
    },
    name: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Name",
      description: "Short name of the incident",
      optional: true,
    },
    description: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Description",
      description: "Full description of the incident",
      optional: true,
    },
    call: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Call",
      description: "Should we call the on-call person?",
      optional: true,
    },
    sms: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "SMS",
      description: "Should we send an SMS to the on-call person?",
      optional: true,
    },
    email: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Email",
      description: "Should we send an email to the on-call person?",
      optional: true,
    },
    push: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Push",
      description: "Should we send a push notification to the on-call person?",
      optional: true,
    },
    teamWait: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Team Wait",
      description: "How long to wait before escalating the incident alert to the team. Leave blank to disable escalating to the entire team. In seconds.",
      optional: true,
    },
    policyId: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "policyId",
      ],
    },
  },
  methods: {
    createIncident(args = {}) {
      return this.app.post({
        path: "/incidents",
        ...args,
      });
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      createIncident,
      requesterEmail,
      name,
      summary,
      description,
      call,
      sms,
      email,
      push,
      teamWait,
      policyId,
    } = this;

    const response = await createIncident({
      $,
      data: {
        requester_email: requesterEmail,
        name,
        summary,
        description,
        call,
        sms,
        email,
        push,
        team_wait: teamWait,
        policy_id: policyId,
      },
    });

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully created incident with ID \`${response.data.id}\``);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Better Stack	`app`	`app`	This component uses the Better Stack app.
Requester Email	`requesterEmail`	`string`	E-mail of the user who requested the incident
Summary	`summary`	`string`	Brief summary of the incident
Name	`name`	`string`	Short name of the incident
Description	`description`	`string`	Full description of the incident
Call	`call`	`boolean`	Should we call the on-call person?
SMS	`sms`	`boolean`	Should we send an SMS to the on-call person?
Email	`email`	`boolean`	Should we send an email to the on-call person?
Push	`push`	`boolean`	Should we send a push notification to the on-call person?
Team Wait	`teamWait`	`integer`	How long to wait before escalating the incident alert to the team. Leave blank to disable escalating to the entire team. In seconds.
Policy ID	`policyId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.