Amazon Incident Manager Start Incident API

The Start Incident API from Amazon Incident Manager — 1 operation(s) for start incident.

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POST /startIncident Amazon Incident Manager Start Incident #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-incident-manager-start-incident-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 2018-05-10
  x-release: v4
  title: AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager Start Incident API
  description: Systems Manager Incident Manager is an incident management console designed to help users mitigate and recover from incidents affecting their Amazon Web Services-hosted applications.
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  termsOfService: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
  contact:
    name: Mike Ralphson
    email: mike.ralphson@gmail.com
    url: https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi
    x-twitter: PermittedSoc
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0 License
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/
  x-providerName: amazonaws.com
  x-serviceName: ssm-incidents
  x-aws-signingName: ssm-incidents
  x-origin:
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    x-apisguru-driver: external
  x-apiClientRegistration:
    url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html?nc2=h_ct
  x-apisguru-categories:
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  x-preferred: true
servers:
- url: http://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - us-east-1
      - us-east-2
      - us-west-1
      - us-west-2
      - us-gov-west-1
      - us-gov-east-1
      - ca-central-1
      - eu-north-1
      - eu-west-1
      - eu-west-2
      - eu-west-3
      - eu-central-1
      - eu-south-1
      - af-south-1
      - ap-northeast-1
      - ap-northeast-2
      - ap-northeast-3
      - ap-southeast-1
      - ap-southeast-2
      - ap-east-1
      - ap-south-1
      - sa-east-1
      - me-south-1
      default: us-east-1
  description: The SSM Incidents multi-region endpoint
- url: https://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - us-east-1
      - us-east-2
      - us-west-1
      - us-west-2
      - us-gov-west-1
      - us-gov-east-1
      - ca-central-1
      - eu-north-1
      - eu-west-1
      - eu-west-2
      - eu-west-3
      - eu-central-1
      - eu-south-1
      - af-south-1
      - ap-northeast-1
      - ap-northeast-2
      - ap-northeast-3
      - ap-southeast-1
      - ap-southeast-2
      - ap-east-1
      - ap-south-1
      - sa-east-1
      - me-south-1
      default: us-east-1
  description: The SSM Incidents multi-region endpoint
- url: http://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - cn-north-1
      - cn-northwest-1
      default: cn-north-1
  description: The SSM Incidents endpoint for China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia)
- url: https://ssm-incidents.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - cn-north-1
      - cn-northwest-1
      default: cn-north-1
  description: The SSM Incidents endpoint for China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia)
security:
- hmac: []
tags:
- name: Start Incident
paths:
  /startIncident:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Content-Sha256'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Date'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Algorithm'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Credential'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Security-Token'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Signature'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-SignedHeaders'
    post:
      operationId: StartIncident
      description: Used to start an incident from CloudWatch alarms, EventBridge events, or manually.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/StartIncidentOutput'
        '480':
          description: ThrottlingException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ThrottlingException'
        '481':
          description: ResourceNotFoundException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceNotFoundException'
        '482':
          description: AccessDeniedException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessDeniedException'
        '483':
          description: ValidationException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationException'
        '484':
          description: ConflictException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConflictException'
        '485':
          description: InternalServerException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServerException'
      parameters: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - responsePlanArn
              properties:
                clientToken:
                  description: A token ensuring that the operation is called only once with the specified details.
                  type: string
                  minLength: 0
                  maxLength: 128
                impact:
                  description: <p>Defines the impact to the customers. Providing an impact overwrites the impact provided by a response plan.</p> <p class="title"> <b>Possible impacts:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>1</code> - Critical impact, this typically relates to full application failure that impacts many to all customers. </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>2</code> - High impact, partial application failure with impact to many customers.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>3</code> - Medium impact, the application is providing reduced service to customers.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>4</code> - Low impact, customer might aren't impacted by the problem yet.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>5</code> - No impact, customers aren't currently impacted but urgent action is needed to avoid impact.</p> </li> </ul>
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 1
                  maximum: 5
                relatedItems:
                  description: 'Add related items to the incident for other responders to use. Related items are Amazon Web Services resources, external links, or files uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. '
                  type: array
                  items:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/RelatedItem'
                  minItems: 0
                  maxItems: 100
                responsePlanArn:
                  description: 'The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the response plan that pre-defines summary, chat channels, Amazon SNS topics, runbooks, title, and impact of the incident. '
                  type: string
                  pattern: ^arn:aws(-cn|-us-gov)?:[a-z0-9-]*:[a-z0-9-]*:([0-9]{12})?:.+$
                  minLength: 0
                  maxLength: 1000
                title:
                  description: 'Provide a title for the incident. Providing a title overwrites the title provided by the response plan. '
                  type: string
                  minLength: 0
                  maxLength: 200
                triggerDetails:
                  description: Details about what caused the incident to be created in Incident Manager.
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    rawData:
                      allOf:
                      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RawData'
                      - description: Raw data passed from either Amazon EventBridge, Amazon CloudWatch, or Incident Manager when an incident is created.
                    source:
                      allOf:
                      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/IncidentSource'
                      - description: 'Identifies the service that sourced the event. All events sourced from within Amazon Web Services begin with "<code>aws.</code>" Customer-generated events can have any value here, as long as it doesn''t begin with "<code>aws.</code>" We recommend the use of Java package-name style reverse domain-name strings. '
                    timestamp:
                      allOf:
                      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
                      - description: The time that the incident was detected.
                    triggerArn:
                      allOf:
                      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Arn'
                      - description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the source that detected the incident.
      summary: Amazon Incident Manager Start Incident
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      tags:
      - Start Incident
components:
  schemas:
    RelatedItemTitleString:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 200
    ThrottlingException: {}
    ConflictException: {}
    RelatedItem:
      type: object
      required:
      - identifier
      properties:
        generatedId:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeneratedId'
          - description: <p>A unique ID for a <code>RelatedItem</code>.</p> <important> <p>Don't specify this parameter when you add a <code>RelatedItem</code> by using the <a>UpdateRelatedItems</a> API action.</p> </important>
        identifier:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemIdentifier'
          - description: Details about the related item.
        title:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RelatedItemTitleString'
          - description: The title of the related item.
      description: Resources that responders use to triage and mitigate the incident.
    Arn:
      type: string
      pattern: ^arn:aws(-cn|-us-gov)?:[a-z0-9-]*:[a-z0-9-]*:([0-9]{12})?:.+$
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 1000
    StartIncidentOutput:
      type: object
      required:
      - incidentRecordArn
      properties:
        incidentRecordArn:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Arn'
          - description: The ARN of the newly created incident record.
    PagerDutyIncidentDetailIdString:
      type: string
      minLength: 1
      maxLength: 200
    ItemType:
      type: string
      enum:
      - ANALYSIS
      - INCIDENT
      - METRIC
      - PARENT
      - ATTACHMENT
      - OTHER
      - AUTOMATION
      - INVOLVED_RESOURCE
      - TASK
    PagerDutyIncidentDetail:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      properties:
        autoResolve:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Boolean'
          - description: Indicates whether to resolve the PagerDuty incident when you resolve the associated Incident Manager incident.
        id:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PagerDutyIncidentDetailIdString'
          - description: The ID of the incident associated with the PagerDuty service for the response plan.
        secretId:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PagerDutyIncidentDetailSecretIdString'
          - description: The ID of the Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager secret that stores your PagerDuty key, either a General Access REST API Key or User Token REST API Key, and other user credentials.
      description: Details about the PagerDuty incident associated with an incident created by an Incident Manager response plan.
    ItemIdentifier:
      type: object
      required:
      - type
      - value
      properties:
        type:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemType'
          - description: 'The type of related item. '
        value:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemValue'
          - description: Details about the related item.
      description: Details and type of a related item.
    ValidationException: {}
    Boolean:
      type: boolean
    IncidentSource:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 50
    ItemValue:
      type: object
      properties:
        arn:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Arn'
          - description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the related item, if the related item is an Amazon resource.
        metricDefinition:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricDefinition'
          - description: The metric definition, if the related item is a metric in Amazon CloudWatch.
        pagerDutyIncidentDetail:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PagerDutyIncidentDetail'
          - description: Details about an incident that is associated with a PagerDuty incident.
        url:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Url'
          - description: The URL, if the related item is a non-Amazon Web Services resource.
      description: Describes a related item.
    GeneratedId:
      type: string
      pattern: ^related-item/(ANALYSIS|INCIDENT|METRIC|PARENT|ATTACHMENT|OTHER|AUTOMATION|INVOLVED_RESOURCE|TASK)/([0-9]|[A-F]){32}$
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 200
    MetricDefinition:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 4000
    PagerDutyIncidentDetailSecretIdString:
      type: string
      minLength: 1
      maxLength: 512
    RawData:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 10000
    ResourceNotFoundException: {}
    InternalServerException: {}
    AccessDeniedException: {}
    Timestamp:
      type: string
      format: date-time
    Url:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 1000
  parameters:
    X-Amz-Date:
      name: X-Amz-Date
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-SignedHeaders:
      name: X-Amz-SignedHeaders
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Signature:
      name: X-Amz-Signature
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Security-Token:
      name: X-Amz-Security-Token
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Credential:
      name: X-Amz-Credential
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Algorithm:
      name: X-Amz-Algorithm
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Content-Sha256:
      name: X-Amz-Content-Sha256
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
  securitySchemes:
    hmac:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
      description: Amazon Signature authorization v4
      x-amazon-apigateway-authtype: awsSigv4
externalDocs:
  description: Amazon Web Services documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ssm-incidents/
x-hasEquivalentPaths: true