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Amazon Incident Manager StartIncident API

The StartIncident API from Amazon Incident Manager — 1 operation(s) for startincident.

Amazon Incident Manager StartIncident API is one of 27 APIs that Amazon Incident Manager publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include StartIncident. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 23 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: http://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com, https://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com, http://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn, https://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn.

1 operations 1 paths 23 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://ssm-incidents.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Amazon Incident Manager StartIncident API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (hmac). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • hmac — Amazon Signature authorization v4

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

StartIncident 1
POST
/startIncident
Amazon Incident Manager Start Incident
StartIncident 7 params body → 200480481482483484485

Schemas 23

The contract defines 23 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ItemValue (4 properties), PagerDutyIncidentDetail (3 properties), RelatedItem (3 properties), ItemIdentifier (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Arn
string
ItemValue
object
Describes a related item.
4 properties
RawData
string
ConflictException
MetricDefinition
string
ThrottlingException
Url
string
PagerDutyIncidentDetail
object
Details about the PagerDuty incident associated with an incident created by an Incident Manager response plan.
3 properties 1 required
ItemIdentifier
object
Details and type of a related item.
2 properties 2 required
IncidentSource
string
ResourceNotFoundException
RelatedItemTitleString
string
RelatedItem
object
Resources that responders use to triage and mitigate the incident.
3 properties 1 required
StartIncidentOutput
object
1 property 1 required
Boolean
boolean
Timestamp
string
AccessDeniedException
ValidationException
ItemType
string
PagerDutyIncidentDetailSecretIdString
string
PagerDutyIncidentDetailIdString
string
GeneratedId
string
InternalServerException

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amazon-incident-manager-startincident-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Amazon Incident Manager publishes across the network.

Amazon Incident Manager CreateReplicationSet API
Amazon Incident Manager CreateResponsePlan API
Amazon Incident Manager CreateTimelineEvent API
Amazon Incident Manager DeleteIncidentRecord API
Amazon Incident Manager DeleteReplicationSet#arn API
Amazon Incident Manager DeleteResourcePolicy API
Amazon Incident Manager DeleteResponsePlan API
Amazon Incident Manager DeleteTimelineEvent API
Amazon Incident Manager GetIncidentRecord#arn API
Amazon Incident Manager GetReplicationSet#arn API
Amazon Incident Manager GetResourcePolicies#resourceArn API
Amazon Incident Manager GetResponsePlan#arn API
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