Acknowledge Incident
Tool to acknowledge an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as being worked on, which prevents further escalations. Acknowledging an incident signals that someone is actively addressing the issue.
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Tool to acknowledge an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as being worked on, which prevents further escalations. Acknowledging an incident signals that someone is actively addressing the issue.
Creates a new escalation policy for incident management. Escalation policies define who gets notified and in what order when incidents occur. Supports multiple step types: 'escalation' (notify members), 'instructions' (guidance text), 'time_branching' (route by schedule), and 'metadata_branching' (route by incident metadata). For escalation steps, a valid urgency_id from the Severities API is required.
Tool to create a new escalation policy group. Use when you need to organize related escalation policies under a single logical group.
Tool to create a new heartbeat monitor for cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Use when you need to set up monitoring for a service that should send regular heartbeat signals.
Tool to create a new heartbeat group. Use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a single, logical group. Example prompt: "Create a new heartbeat group named 'Backend services'."
Tool to create a new incident and alert the on-call person. Use when you need to manually report an incident or trigger escalation workflows. The incident will be routed according to the specified escalation policy or default team settings.
Tool to create a new comment on an incident. Use when you need to add documentation, updates, or notes to an existing incident in Better Stack.
Tool to create or update a metadata record for a resource. Metadata provides key-value associations for resources like monitors, heartbeats, or incidents. Use when you need to tag or annotate resources with custom data. Existing values for the specified key will be completely replaced.
Tool to create a new uptime monitor for a URL or service. Use when you need to set up monitoring for websites, APIs, servers, or network services. Supports multiple monitor types including HTTP/HTTPS status checks, keyword monitoring, ping, TCP/UDP, email protocols, DNS queries, and browser automation with Playwright.
Tool to create a new monitor group. Use when you need to organize related monitors under a single, logical group for better dashboard organization.
Tool to create a new on-call schedule. Use when you need to set up a new on-call calendar for managing team rotations.
Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration. Use when you need to register an endpoint to receive event notifications from Better Stack.
Tool to create a new severity level (urgency) for incident management. Use when you need to define notification preferences for different incident severity levels.
Tool to create a new source group. Use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and need to organize related log sources under that group.
Tool to create a new status page group. Use when you need to organize related status pages under a single logical group with a descriptive name.
Tool to create a new status page report (incident or maintenance). Use when you need to publish a status update about an ongoing incident or scheduled maintenance on a status page.
Tool to create a new status page resource. Use when you need to add a monitor, heartbeat, or other resource to a status page for public visibility tracking.
Tool to create a new section on a status page. Use when organizing resources into logical groups (e.g., by datacenter or service type). Leave name blank to hide the section header.
Tool to create a new status update for an existing status report. Use when you need to post an update about the current state of an incident or maintenance. The update can include a message, affected resources with their status, and optionally notify subscribers.
Tool to create a new urgency group (severity group) for incident categorization. Use when you need to define severity levels for monitoring alerts and incidents.
Tool to delete an escalation policy by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy after confirming its ID.
Tool to delete an escalation policy group by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy group after confirming its ID.
Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat that is no longer needed.
Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat group by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat group that is no longer needed.
Tool to permanently delete an existing incident by ID. Use when you need to remove an incident from Better Stack Uptime.
Tool to delete an existing comment from an incident. Use when you need to remove a comment that was previously added via the API. Note: Only comments created via the API can be deleted; comments created in the UI cannot be deleted via the API.
Tool to permanently delete a monitor by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use when you need to remove a monitor that is no longer needed.
Tool to permanently delete a monitor group by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use when you need to remove a monitor group that is no longer needed.
Tool to permanently delete an on-call schedule by ID. Use when you need to remove an on-call calendar that is no longer needed.
Tool to delete an outgoing webhook integration by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing webhook integration.
Tool to delete a severity (urgency) by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing severity level after confirming its ID.
Tool to permanently delete a source group by ID from Better Stack Telemetry (Logs). Source groups are used to organize related log sources. Use this action when you need to remove a source group that is no longer needed. Note: This action requires a Telemetry API token (not an Uptime API token). Deleting a source group does not delete the sources within it - they will become ungrouped.
Tool to delete a status page group by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing status page group.
Tool to permanently delete a status page report by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use this action when you need to remove an existing status page report that is no longer needed. The report will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.
Tool to delete an existing resource from a status page. Use when you need to permanently remove a resource (monitor or heartbeat) that is displayed on a status page.
Tool to permanently delete a status page section by ID. Use when you need to remove a section from a status page that is no longer needed. Sections organize resources on status pages for better visibility.
Tool to delete an existing status update from a status report. Use when you need to permanently remove a status update after confirming its ID.
Tool to permanently delete an urgency group (severity group) by ID. Use when you need to remove an existing severity group that is no longer needed.
Tool to escalate an ongoing incident to a user, team, schedule, policy, or organization. Use when you need to route an active incident to the appropriate responders with specified notification channels (call, SMS, email, push).
Tool to get a single escalation policy by its ID. Use when you need full details of a specific escalation policy including its steps, repeat settings, and team information.
Tool to get a single escalation policy group. Use when you need full details of a specific escalation policy group by its ID.
Tool to get a single heartbeat by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat.
Tool to retrieve availability summary for a specific heartbeat. Use when you need availability metrics for a heartbeat within an optional date range.
Tool to get a single heartbeat group by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat group.
Tool to get a single comment from an incident. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific comment on a Better Stack incident.
Tool to get a single monitor. Use when you need full details of a specific monitor by its ID.
Tool to return an availability summary for a specific monitor. Use when you need uptime percentage and incident details within an optional date range.
Tool to get a single monitor group by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific monitor group.
Tool to get all monitors belonging to a monitor group. Use when you need to retrieve all monitors within a specific monitor group, with optional pagination support.
Retrieves response time performance metrics for a specific uptime monitor. Returns detailed timing data (DNS lookup, connection, TLS handshake, data transfer) grouped by geographic region. By default returns data for the last 24 hours. Use this to analyze monitor performance, identify latency issues, or compare response times across regions. Requires a valid monitor_id which can be obtained from the list_monitors action.
Tool to get a single on-call schedule by ID. Use when you need to retrieve who is currently on-call for a specific schedule. Optionally specify a date to check on-call status at a specific time.
Tool to get a single outgoing webhook integration by ID. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific webhook integration.
Tool to get a single severity level (urgency) by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific urgency configuration.
Tool to get a single status page by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific status page.
Tool to get a single status page group by ID. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific status page group.
Tool to get a single status page report by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific status report or incident.
Tool to get a single status page resource by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific resource on a status page.
Tool to get a single status page section. Use when you need details of a specific section within a status page by its ID.
Tool to get a single status update by its ID. Use when you need details of a specific status update for a status report on your status page.
Tool to retrieve the configured Uptime API token. Use when you need the Uptime API token for subsequent authenticated API calls.
Tool to get a single urgency group (severity group) by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific urgency group.
Tool to list all AWS CloudWatch integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured AWS CloudWatch on-call integrations.
Tool to list all Azure integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Azure on-call integrations.
Tool to list all catalog relations. Use when you need to retrieve all catalog relations, supports pagination.
Tool to list all Datadog integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Datadog on-call integrations.
Tool to list Elastic integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Elastic integrations.
Tool to list email integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured email integrations with optional team filtering and pagination support.
Tool to list all escalation policies. Use when you need to retrieve existing escalation policies with optional filtering by team name.
Tool to list all escalation policy groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing policy groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.
Tool to list all Google Monitoring integrations. Use when you need to view your configured Google Monitoring on-call integrations with pagination support.
Tool to list all Grafana integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Grafana integrations.
Tool to list all heartbeat groups. Use when you need to retrieve configured heartbeat groups with optional filtering by team name.
Tool to list all heartbeats. Use when you need to retrieve your configured uptime heartbeats with optional pagination.
Tool to list all comments on an incident. Use when you need to retrieve all comments associated with a Better Stack incident.
Tool to retrieve all timeline events for an incident. Use when you need to get a chronological history of events, comments, responses, and changes for a specific incident in Better Stack. Returns all timeline items without pagination.
Tool to list all incidents with optional filtering by monitor, heartbeat, date range, or resolution status. Supports pagination with default of 10 per page and maximum of 50.
Tool to list all Jira integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Jira integrations.
Tool to list all existing metadata. Use when you need to retrieve metadata records with optional filtering by team, owner resource ID, or owner resource type.
Tool to list all monitor groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing monitor groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.
Tool to list all monitors. Use when you need to retrieve existing uptime monitors with optional filtering by URL or name and pagination.
Tool to list New Relic integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured New Relic integrations with pagination support.
Tool to list all events for a specific on-call schedule. Use when you need to retrieve the calendar of scheduled on-call periods for a team.
Tool to list all on-call schedules. Use when you need to retrieve all configured on-call calendars.
Tool to list all outgoing webhook integrations. Use when you need to retrieve configured webhook endpoints for event notifications.
Tool to list PagerDuty integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured PagerDuty integrations.
Tool to list all Prometheus integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Prometheus on-call integrations.
Tool to list all severity levels (urgencies). Use when you need to retrieve existing incident severity configurations with their notification settings.
Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single incident by its ID. Use when you need to get the full details of a specific incident including its status, timeline, affected regions, and notification settings.
Tool to list all Slack integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Slack channel integrations.
Tool to list all Splunk On-Call integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Splunk On-Call on-call integrations.
Tool to list all status page groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing status page groups with optional pagination.
Tool to list all status updates for a status page report. Use when you need to retrieve updates posted on a specific status page report with optional pagination.
Tool to list all reports on a status page. Use when you need to retrieve existing status page reports with optional pagination via `page` and `per_page`.
Tool to list all resources on a status page. Use when you need to retrieve existing resources with optional pagination.
Tool to list all sections of a specific status page. Use when you need to retrieve the existing sections within a status page.
Tool to list all your status pages. Use when you need to retrieve existing status pages with optional pagination.
Tool to list status pages within a specific status page group. Use when you need to retrieve all status pages belonging to a particular group with optional pagination.
Tool to list all urgency groups (severity groups). Use when you need to retrieve existing urgency groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.
Tool to resolve an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as resolved and close it. Resolving an incident signals that the issue has been fixed and stops any further escalations.
Tool to update an existing escalation policy. Use when you need to modify policy attributes like name, repeat settings, or escalation steps. Only the fields you provide will be updated (partial updates supported).
Updates an existing escalation policy group's properties. Use to rename a group or change its display order.
Tool to update an existing heartbeat configuration. Use after retrieving a heartbeat and choosing which fields to change.
Updates an existing heartbeat group's properties. Use to rename a group, change its display order, or pause/resume monitoring for all heartbeats in the group.
Tool to update an existing comment on an incident. Use when you need to modify the content of a comment that was previously added to a Better Stack incident.
Tool to update an existing uptime monitor configuration. Use when you need to modify settings of an existing monitor such as check frequency, notification preferences, URLs, or monitoring behavior.
Updates an existing monitor group's properties. Use to rename a group, change its display order, or pause/resume monitoring for all monitors in the group.
Tool to update an on-call schedule's name. Use when you need to rename an existing on-call calendar.
Tool to update an existing outgoing webhook integration. Use when you need to modify the configuration of a webhook endpoint.
Tool to update an existing severity level (urgency) configuration. Use when you need to modify notification settings or name for a specific severity level.
Update an existing source group in Better Stack Logs/Telemetry. Use this to rename a source group or change its sort order. Requires a Telemetry API token (different from Uptime API token).
Tool to update an existing status page group. Use when you need to modify the name or display order of a status page group.
Tool to update an existing status page report. Use when you need to modify the title, timing, or affected resources of an existing incident or maintenance report.
Tool to update an existing status page resource. Use when you need to modify the display name, position, widget type, or other properties of a resource on a status page.
Tool to update an existing status page section. Use when reorganizing sections or changing their display. Leave name blank to hide the section header.
Tool to update an existing status page configuration. Use when modifying settings like company info, appearance, access control, or display preferences.
Tool to update an existing status update for a status report. Use when you need to modify the message, affected resources, or other details of a previously created status update.
Tool to update an existing urgency group (severity group). Use when you need to modify the name or sort order of a severity group.