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Honeycomb Recipients API

Honeycomb Recipients allow you to define and manage the Recipients that will get notified by a Trigger or Burn Alert.The types of Recipients supported are: PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.## AuthorizationThe API key must have the **Manage Recipients** permission. Recipients are team-wide and NOT environment-specific.API Keys with the **Manage Recipients** permission can modify recipients used by ALL environments for a given team.Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/).

Honeycomb Recipients API is one of 21 APIs that Honeycomb publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Recipients. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.honeycomb.io, https://api.eu1.honeycomb.io.

5 operations 2 paths 16 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.honeycomb.io
License
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 5

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Recipients 5

Honeycomb Recipients allow you to define and manage the Recipients that will get notified by a Trigger or Burn Alert. The types of Recipients supported are: PagerDuty, Email, Webh…

POST
/1/recipients
Create a Recipient
createRecipient body → 201400401403409422
GET
/1/recipients
List all Recipients
listRecipients → 200401
GET
/1/recipients/{recipientId}
Get a single Recipient
getRecipient 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/1/recipients/{recipientId}
Update a Recipient
updateRecipient 1 param body → 200401404409422
DELETE
/1/recipients/{recipientId}
Delete a Recipient
deleteRecipient 1 param → 204401404409

Schemas 16

The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DetailedError (6 properties), RecipientProperties (4 properties), WebhookHeader (2 properties), TemplateVariableDefinition (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RecipientProperties
object
4 properties
PagerDutyRecipient
WebhookHeader
object
2 properties 1 required
MSTeamsRecipient
RecipientType
string
One of the supported Recipient Types
EmailRecipient
PayloadTemplate
object
1 property
Recipient
object
1 property 1 required
TemplateVariableDefinition
object
2 properties 1 required
Error
object
A legacy error, containing only a textual description.
1 property
ValidationError
MSTeamsWorkflowRecipient
SlackRecipient
WebhookRecipient
DetailedError
object
An RFC7807 'Problem Detail' formatted error message.
6 properties 4 required
JSONAPIError
object
A JSONAPI-formatted error message.
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

honeycomb-io-recipients-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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