---
title: Send an incident event (legacy)
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
breadcrumbs: Docs > API Reference > DORA Metrics
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# Send an incident event (legacy){% #send-an-incident-event-legacy %}
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| Datadog site      | API endpoint                                            |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| ap1.datadoghq.com | POST https://api.ap1.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident |
| ap2.datadoghq.com | POST https://api.ap2.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident |
| app.datadoghq.eu  | POST https://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v2/dora/incident      |
| app.ddog-gov.com  | POST https://api.ddog-gov.com/api/v2/dora/incident      |
| us2.ddog-gov.com  | POST https://api.us2.ddog-gov.com/api/v2/dora/incident  |
| app.datadoghq.com | POST https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident     |
| us3.datadoghq.com | POST https://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident |
| us5.datadoghq.com | POST https://api.us5.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident |

### Overview



**Note**: This endpoint is deprecated. Please use `/api/v2/dora/failure` instead.

Use this API endpoint to provide incident data. Tracking incidents gives a side-by-side view of how failed deployments translate into real-world incidents.



### Request

#### Body Data (required)



{% tab title="Model" %}

| Parent field | Field                            | Type     | Description                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------ | -------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|              | data [*required*]           | object   | The JSON:API data.                                                                                                                                      |
| data         | attributes [*required*]     | object   | Attributes to create a DORA incident event.                                                                                                             |
| attributes   | custom_tags                      | [string] | A list of user-defined tags. The tags must follow the `key:value` pattern. Up to 100 may be added per event.                                            |
| attributes   | env                              | string   | Environment name that was impacted by the incident.                                                                                                     |
| attributes   | finished_at                      | int64    | Unix timestamp when the incident finished. It must be in nanoseconds, milliseconds, or seconds.                                                         |
| attributes   | git                              | object   | Git info for DORA Metrics events.                                                                                                                       |
| git          | commit_sha [*required*]     | string   | Git Commit SHA.                                                                                                                                         |
| git          | repository_url [*required*] | string   | Git Repository URL                                                                                                                                      |
| attributes   | id                               | string   | Incident ID. Must be 16-128 characters and contain only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, underscores, periods, and colons (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, ., :). |
| attributes   | name                             | string   | Incident name.                                                                                                                                          |
| attributes   | services                         | [string] | Service names impacted by the incident. If possible, use names registered in the Service Catalog. Required when the team field is not provided.         |
| attributes   | severity                         | string   | Incident severity.                                                                                                                                      |
| attributes   | started_at [*required*]     | int64    | Unix timestamp when the incident started. It must be in nanoseconds, milliseconds, or seconds.                                                          |
| attributes   | team                             | string   | Name of the team owning the services impacted. If possible, use team handles registered in Datadog. Required when the services field is not provided.   |
| attributes   | version                          | string   | Version to correlate with [APM Deployment Tracking](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/services/deployment_tracking.md).                                |

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{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "finished_at": 1707842944600000000,
      "git": {
        "commit_sha": "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
        "repository_url": "https://github.com/organization/example-repository"
      },
      "name": "Webserver is down failing all requests",
      "services": [
        "shopist"
      ],
      "severity": "High",
      "started_at": 1707842944500000000,
      "team": "backend",
      "version": "v1.12.07"
    }
  }
}
```

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### Response

{% tab title="200" %}
OK
{% tab title="Model" %}
Response after receiving a DORA incident event.

| Parent field | Field                  | Type   | Description                                                                 |
| ------------ | ---------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|              | data [*required*] | object | Response after receiving a DORA incident event.                             |
| data         | id [*required*]   | string | The ID of the received DORA incident event.                                 |
| data         | type                   | enum   | JSON:API type for DORA incident events. Allowed enum values: `dora_failure` |

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "4242fcdd31586083",
    "type": "dora_failure"
  }
}
```

{% /tab %}

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="202" %}
OK - but delayed due to incident
{% tab title="Model" %}
Response after receiving a DORA incident event.

| Parent field | Field                  | Type   | Description                                                                 |
| ------------ | ---------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|              | data [*required*] | object | Response after receiving a DORA incident event.                             |
| data         | id [*required*]   | string | The ID of the received DORA incident event.                                 |
| data         | type                   | enum   | JSON:API type for DORA incident events. Allowed enum values: `dora_failure` |

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "4242fcdd31586083",
    "type": "dora_failure"
  }
}
```

{% /tab %}

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="400" %}
Bad Request
{% tab title="Model" %}
API error response.

| Parent field | Field                    | Type     | Description                                                                     |
| ------------ | ------------------------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|              | errors [*required*] | [object] | A list of errors.                                                               |
| errors       | detail                   | string   | A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the error.          |
| errors       | meta                     | object   | Non-standard meta-information about the error                                   |
| errors       | source                   | object   | References to the source of the error.                                          |
| source       | header                   | string   | A string indicating the name of a single request header which caused the error. |
| source       | parameter                | string   | A string indicating which URI query parameter caused the error.                 |
| source       | pointer                  | string   | A JSON pointer to the value in the request document that caused the error.      |
| errors       | status                   | string   | Status code of the response.                                                    |
| errors       | title                    | string   | Short human-readable summary of the error.                                      |

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{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "Missing required attribute in body",
      "meta": {},
      "source": {
        "header": "Authorization",
        "parameter": "limit",
        "pointer": "/data/attributes/title"
      },
      "status": "400",
      "title": "Bad Request"
    }
  ]
}
```

{% /tab %}

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="403" %}
Not Authorized
{% tab title="Model" %}
API error response.

| Field                    | Type     | Description       |
| ------------------------ | -------- | ----------------- |
| errors [*required*] | [string] | A list of errors. |

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}
```

{% /tab %}

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="429" %}
Too many requests
{% tab title="Model" %}
API error response.

| Field                    | Type     | Description       |
| ------------------------ | -------- | ----------------- |
| errors [*required*] | [string] | A list of errors. |

{% /tab %}

{% tab title="Example" %}

```json
{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}
```

{% /tab %}

{% /tab %}

### Code Example

##### 
                          \## default
# 
 \# Curl command curl -X POST "https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dora/incident" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
-d @- << EOF
{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "custom_tags": [
        "language:java",
        "department:engineering"
      ],
      "env": "staging",
      "finished_at": 1693491984000000000,
      "git": {
        "commit_sha": "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
        "repository_url": "https://github.com/organization/example-repository"
      },
      "name": "Webserver is down failing all requests.",
      "services": [
        "test-service"
      ],
      "severity": "High",
      "started_at": 1693491974000000000,
      "team": "backend",
      "version": "v1.12.07"
    }
  }
}
EOF 
                        
##### 

```go
// Send a failure event returns "OK" response

package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadog"
	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadogV2"
)

func main() {
	body := datadogV2.DORAFailureRequest{
		Data: datadogV2.DORAFailureRequestData{
			Attributes: datadogV2.DORAFailureRequestAttributes{
				FinishedAt: datadog.PtrInt64(1707842944600000000),
				Git: &datadogV2.DORAGitInfo{
					CommitSha:     "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
					RepositoryUrl: "https://github.com/organization/example-repository",
				},
				Name: datadog.PtrString("Webserver is down failing all requests"),
				Services: []string{
					"shopist",
				},
				Severity:  datadog.PtrString("High"),
				StartedAt: 1707842944500000000,
				Team:      datadog.PtrString("backend"),
				Version:   datadog.PtrString("v1.12.07"),
			},
		},
	}
	ctx := datadog.NewDefaultContext(context.Background())
	configuration := datadog.NewConfiguration()
	apiClient := datadog.NewAPIClient(configuration)
	api := datadogV2.NewDORAMetricsApi(apiClient)
	resp, r, err := api.CreateDORAIncident(ctx, body)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `DORAMetricsApi.CreateDORAIncident`: %v\n", err)
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
	}

	responseContent, _ := json.MarshalIndent(resp, "", "  ")
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `DORAMetricsApi.CreateDORAIncident`:\n%s\n", responseContent)
}
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=go) and then save the example to `main.go` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" go run "main.go"
##### 

```java
// Send a failure event returns "OK" response

import com.datadog.api.client.ApiClient;
import com.datadog.api.client.ApiException;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.api.DoraMetricsApi;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.DORAFailureRequest;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.DORAFailureRequestAttributes;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.DORAFailureRequestData;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.DORAFailureResponse;
import com.datadog.api.client.v2.model.DORAGitInfo;
import java.util.Collections;

public class Example {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ApiClient defaultClient = ApiClient.getDefaultApiClient();
    DoraMetricsApi apiInstance = new DoraMetricsApi(defaultClient);

    DORAFailureRequest body =
        new DORAFailureRequest()
            .data(
                new DORAFailureRequestData()
                    .attributes(
                        new DORAFailureRequestAttributes()
                            .finishedAt(1707842944600000000L)
                            .git(
                                new DORAGitInfo()
                                    .commitSha("66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588")
                                    .repositoryUrl(
                                        "https://github.com/organization/example-repository"))
                            .name("Webserver is down failing all requests")
                            .services(Collections.singletonList("shopist"))
                            .severity("High")
                            .startedAt(1707842944500000000L)
                            .team("backend")
                            .version("v1.12.07")));

    try {
      DORAFailureResponse result = apiInstance.createDORAIncident(body);
      System.out.println(result);
    } catch (ApiException e) {
      System.err.println("Exception when calling DoraMetricsApi#createDORAIncident");
      System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
      System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
      System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=java) and then save the example to `Example.java` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" java "Example.java"
##### 

```python
"""
Send a failure event returns "OK" response
"""

from datadog_api_client import ApiClient, Configuration
from datadog_api_client.v2.api.dora_metrics_api import DORAMetricsApi
from datadog_api_client.v2.model.dora_failure_request import DORAFailureRequest
from datadog_api_client.v2.model.dora_failure_request_attributes import DORAFailureRequestAttributes
from datadog_api_client.v2.model.dora_failure_request_data import DORAFailureRequestData
from datadog_api_client.v2.model.dora_git_info import DORAGitInfo

body = DORAFailureRequest(
    data=DORAFailureRequestData(
        attributes=DORAFailureRequestAttributes(
            finished_at=1707842944600000000,
            git=DORAGitInfo(
                commit_sha="66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
                repository_url="https://github.com/organization/example-repository",
            ),
            name="Webserver is down failing all requests",
            services=[
                "shopist",
            ],
            severity="High",
            started_at=1707842944500000000,
            team="backend",
            version="v1.12.07",
        ),
    ),
)

configuration = Configuration()
with ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = DORAMetricsApi(api_client)
    response = api_instance.create_dora_incident(body=body)

    print(response)
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=python) and then save the example to `example.py` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" python3 "example.py"
##### 

```ruby
# Send a failure event returns "OK" response

require "datadog_api_client"
api_instance = DatadogAPIClient::V2::DORAMetricsAPI.new

body = DatadogAPIClient::V2::DORAFailureRequest.new({
  data: DatadogAPIClient::V2::DORAFailureRequestData.new({
    attributes: DatadogAPIClient::V2::DORAFailureRequestAttributes.new({
      finished_at: 1707842944600000000,
      git: DatadogAPIClient::V2::DORAGitInfo.new({
        commit_sha: "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
        repository_url: "https://github.com/organization/example-repository",
      }),
      name: "Webserver is down failing all requests",
      services: [
        "shopist",
      ],
      severity: "High",
      started_at: 1707842944500000000,
      team: "backend",
      version: "v1.12.07",
    }),
  }),
})
p api_instance.create_dora_incident(body)
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=ruby) and then save the example to `example.rb` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" rb "example.rb"
##### 

```rust
// Send a failure event returns "OK" response
use datadog_api_client::datadog;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::api_dora_metrics::DORAMetricsAPI;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::model::DORAFailureRequest;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::model::DORAFailureRequestAttributes;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::model::DORAFailureRequestData;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV2::model::DORAGitInfo;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let body = DORAFailureRequest::new(DORAFailureRequestData::new(
        DORAFailureRequestAttributes::new(1707842944500000000)
            .finished_at(1707842944600000000)
            .git(DORAGitInfo::new(
                "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588".to_string(),
                "https://github.com/organization/example-repository".to_string(),
            ))
            .name("Webserver is down failing all requests".to_string())
            .services(vec!["shopist".to_string()])
            .severity("High".to_string())
            .team("backend".to_string())
            .version("v1.12.07".to_string()),
    ));
    let configuration = datadog::Configuration::new();
    let api = DORAMetricsAPI::with_config(configuration);
    let resp = api.create_dora_incident(body).await;
    if let Ok(value) = resp {
        println!("{:#?}", value);
    } else {
        println!("{:#?}", resp.unwrap_err());
    }
}
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=rust) and then save the example to `src/main.rs` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" cargo run
##### 

```typescript
/**
 * Send a failure event returns "OK" response
 */

import { client, v2 } from "@datadog/datadog-api-client";

const configuration = client.createConfiguration();
const apiInstance = new v2.DORAMetricsApi(configuration);

const params: v2.DORAMetricsApiCreateDORAIncidentRequest = {
  body: {
    data: {
      attributes: {
        finishedAt: 1707842944600000000,
        git: {
          commitSha: "66adc9350f2cc9b250b69abddab733dd55e1a588",
          repositoryUrl: "https://github.com/organization/example-repository",
        },
        name: "Webserver is down failing all requests",
        services: ["shopist"],
        severity: "High",
        startedAt: 1707842944500000000,
        team: "backend",
        version: "v1.12.07",
      },
    },
  },
};

apiInstance
  .createDORAIncident(params)
  .then((data: v2.DORAFailureResponse) => {
    console.log(
      "API called successfully. Returned data: " + JSON.stringify(data)
    );
  })
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));
```

#### Instructions

First [install the library and its dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest.md?code-lang=typescript) and then save the example to `example.ts` and run following commands:
    DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"
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