Better Stack · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0
API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Better Stack Uptime Incidents API
10 actions
10 updates
phrasing
extends
openapi/betterstack-incidents-api-openapi.yml
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Written by API Evangelist tooling for Better Stack's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Better Stack publishes.
What the actions change
x-apievangelist-phrasing
Targets 10
$.info
$.paths['/incidents'].get
$.paths['/incidents'].post
$.paths['/incidents/{id}'].get
$.paths['/incidents/{id}'].delete
$.paths['/incidents/{id}/timeline'].get
$.paths['/incidents/{id}/acknowledge'].post
$.paths['/incidents/{id}/resolve'].post
$.paths['/incidents/{id}/reopen'].post
$.paths['/incidents/{id}/escalate'].post
OpenAPI Overlay
# Generated by API Evangelist (build-phrasing.py). Our phrasing, not observed demand.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Better Stack Uptime Incidents API
version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/betterstack-incidents-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
generator: build-phrasing.py
label: Generated by API Evangelist
operations: 9
- target: $.paths['/incidents'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: List incidents
effect: read
questions:
- Which incidents have been opened in my Better Stack account?
- Can I page through my incident history in smaller batches?
instructions:
- text: List all of my incidents.
- text: Show page {page} of incidents with {per_page} per page.
slots:
page: query.page
per_page: query.per_page
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents'].post
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Open a new incident and alert the team
effect: write
questions:
- How do I manually raise an incident and page my on-call team?
- Can I choose whether a new incident alerts people by call, SMS, email or push?
instructions:
- text: Open an incident titled {summary} reported by {requester_email}.
slots:
summary: requestBody.summary
requester_email: requestBody.requester_email
- text: 'Create an incident {summary} from {requester_email} with details: {description}.'
slots:
summary: requestBody.summary
requester_email: requestBody.requester_email
description: requestBody.description
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Get an incident's details
effect: read
questions:
- What is the current status of a specific incident?
- Who reported a given incident and what was its summary?
instructions:
- text: Show me incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Fetch the details of incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}'].delete
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Delete an incident
effect: destructive
questions:
- Can I permanently remove an incident that was opened by mistake?
- Is deleting an incident different from resolving it?
instructions:
- text: Delete incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Permanently remove incident {id} from the record.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}/timeline'].get
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: View an incident's timeline of events
effect: read
questions:
- What happened during an incident, step by step?
- When was an incident acknowledged and escalated?
instructions:
- text: Show the timeline of incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: List every event recorded on incident {id} in order.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}/acknowledge'].post
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Acknowledge an incident
effect: write
questions:
- How do I tell the team I'm working on an incident so alerts stop escalating?
- Can I acknowledge an incident without resolving it?
instructions:
- text: Acknowledge incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Mark incident {id} as acknowledged, I'm on it.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}/resolve'].post
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Resolve an incident
effect: write
questions:
- Can I close out an incident once the problem is fixed?
- What do I call to mark an outage as resolved?
instructions:
- text: Resolve incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Mark incident {id} as fixed and resolved.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}/reopen'].post
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Reopen a resolved incident
effect: write
questions:
- The problem came back. Can I reopen an incident I already resolved?
- Is it possible to undo resolving an incident?
instructions:
- text: Reopen incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Reopen resolved incident {id} because the issue has returned.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/incidents/{id}/escalate'].post
update:
x-apievangelist-phrasing:
intent: Escalate an incident to more responders
effect: write
questions:
- How do I escalate an incident when nobody has responded?
- Can I push an incident up the escalation chain right away?
instructions:
- text: Escalate incident {id}.
slots:
id: path.id
- text: Escalate incident {id} to the next people on call now.
slots:
id: path.id
method: generated
generated: '2026-10-01'
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