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Create Incident

Initiates an incident that signals the team. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Better Stack account once, then configure and run Create Incident from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "better_stack-create-incident",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    better_stack: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    requesterEmail: "Requester Email",
    summary: "Summary",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create Incident inputs
Property Type Description
requesterEmail Requester Email string
E-mail of the user who requested the incident
Required
summary Summary string
Brief summary of the incident
Required
name Name string
Short name of the incident
Optional
description Description string
Full description of the incident
Optional
call Call boolean
Should we call the on-call person?
Optional
sms SMS boolean
Should we send an SMS to the on-call person?
Optional
email Email boolean
Should we send an email to the on-call person?
Optional
push Push boolean
Should we send a push notification to the on-call person?
Optional
teamWait Team Wait integer
How long to wait before escalating the incident alert to the team. Leave blank to disable escalating to the entire team. In seconds.
Optional
policyId Policy ID string
The ID of the escalation policy with which you'd like to escalate this incident
Optional Dynamic

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
better_stack-create-incident
Version
0.0.2
App
Better Stack
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes