honeycomb Recipients API

Manage notification destinations for triggers and burn alerts including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.

Operations 5

GET /1/recipients List all recipients #
POST /1/recipients Create a recipient #
GET /1/recipients/{recipientId} Get a recipient #
PUT /1/recipients/{recipientId} Update a recipient #
DELETE /1/recipients/{recipientId} Delete a recipient #

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OpenAPI Specification

honeycomb-recipients-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Honeycomb Auth Recipients API
  description: The Honeycomb API is a REST API that provides programmatic access to the Honeycomb observability platform. It enables developers to manage datasets and columns, configure SLOs and burn alerts, set up triggers and recipients, manage boards and markers, administer environments, API keys, and access auth, query annotations, calculated fields, marker settings, reporting, dataset definitions, and service maps.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Honeycomb Support
    url: https://support.honeycomb.io
  termsOfService: https://www.honeycomb.io/terms-of-service
servers:
- url: https://api.honeycomb.io
  description: Honeycomb Production API
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Recipients
  description: Manage notification destinations for triggers and burn alerts including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
paths:
  /1/recipients:
    get:
      operationId: listRecipients
      summary: List all recipients
      description: Returns a list of all notification recipients configured for the team. Recipients are team-wide and not environment-specific.
      tags:
      - Recipients
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of recipients
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Recipient'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
    post:
      operationId: createRecipient
      summary: Create a recipient
      description: Creates a new notification recipient. Supported types include PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
      tags:
      - Recipients
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecipientCreateRequest'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Recipient created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Recipient'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
  /1/recipients/{recipientId}:
    get:
      operationId: getRecipient
      summary: Get a recipient
      description: Returns a single recipient by its ID.
      tags:
      - Recipients
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/recipientId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Recipient details
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Recipient'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '404':
          description: Recipient not found
    put:
      operationId: updateRecipient
      summary: Update a recipient
      description: Updates a recipient's notification target or configuration.
      tags:
      - Recipients
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/recipientId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecipientUpdateRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Recipient updated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Recipient'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '404':
          description: Recipient not found
    delete:
      operationId: deleteRecipient
      summary: Delete a recipient
      description: Deletes a notification recipient.
      tags:
      - Recipients
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/recipientId'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Recipient deleted
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '404':
          description: Recipient not found
components:
  schemas:
    RecipientUpdateRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        target:
          type: string
          description: An updated target address or identifier for the recipient.
    Recipient:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the recipient.
        type:
          type: string
          description: The notification channel type.
          enum:
          - email
          - pagerduty
          - slack
          - webhook
          - msteams
        target:
          type: string
          description: The target address or identifier for the recipient, such as an email address or webhook URL.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: ISO8601 formatted time the recipient was created.
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: ISO8601 formatted time the recipient was last updated.
    RecipientCreateRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - type
      - target
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: The notification channel type.
          enum:
          - email
          - pagerduty
          - slack
          - webhook
          - msteams
        target:
          type: string
          description: The target address or identifier for the recipient.
  parameters:
    recipientId:
      name: recipientId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the recipient.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Honeycomb-Team
      description: Honeycomb Configuration API key. Must have appropriate permissions for the endpoint being called.
externalDocs:
  description: Honeycomb API Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api