Create a status page update template

Creates a status page update template from a name and optional message, title, status, and notification settings.

POST https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates

A real request. Sending it changes data in your up4 account.

Authorization

AuthorizationA pls_ key. It stays in this browser tab. Needs status_page.write.

Body

namerequired Unique within the company.

More fields5

message

notify_subscribers Defaults to true.

status Status the template sets. For incident: investigating, identified, monitoring or resolved; for maintenance: scheduled, in_progress, completed or cancelled; for report: published. Empty sets none. title

update_type Defaults to incident. It cannot be changed afterwards.

Headers

Idempotency-KeyheaderGenerated automatically when empty. How it works

Sent directly from your browser to https://app.upfour.io/v1. Mutating calls get an automatic Idempotency-Key when the field is empty.

Request

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scope status_page.write stable Idempotency-Key supported returns 201

Body

application/json required 6 fields

namestringrequired

Unique within the company.

All other fields5 fields

messagestring

notify_subscribersboolean · nullable

Defaults to true.

statusstring

Status the template sets. For incident: investigating, identified, monitoring or resolved; for maintenance: scheduled, in_progress, completed or cancelled; for report: published. Empty sets none.

titlestring

update_typestring

Defaults to incident. It cannot be changed afterwards.

incidentmaintenancereport

Returns

A successful request returns 201 with application/json.

Response fields 1 top-level fields

Field Type Description

data StatusPageUpdateTemplate

StatusPageUpdateTemplate · 10 fields

Field	Type	Description
`created_at`	string (date-time)
`id`	uuid
`message`	string
`name`	string
`notify_subscribers`	boolean
`organization_id`	uuid
`status`	string	Empty when the template sets no status.
`title`	string
`update_type`	string one of`incidentmaintenancereport`
`updated_at`	string (date-time)

Errors

Only the errors this operation can return. Every error uses the same envelope.

Status	Code	Meaning
400	`bad_request`	The request is malformed or fails validation.
403	`permission_denied`	The credentials do not permit this action.

Every call can also return unauthorized (401), rate_limit_exceeded (429) or internal_error (500 / 502). See Responses and errors.

curl -s -X POST "https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UP4_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "message": "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", "name": "Investigating", "notify_subscribers": false, "status": "investigating", "title": "We are investigating an issue", "update_type": "incident" }'

const res = await fetch("https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.UP4_API_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ message: "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", name: "Investigating", notify_subscribers: false, status: "investigating", title: "We are investigating an issue", update_type: "incident", }), }); console.log(res.status, await res.json());

import os import requests res = requests.post( "https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['UP4_API_KEY']}"}, json={ "message": "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", "name": "Investigating", "notify_subscribers": False, "status": "investigating", "title": "We are investigating an issue", "update_type": "incident", }, ) print(res.status_code, res.json())

package main import ( "fmt" "io" "net/http" "os" "strings" ) func main() { payload := strings.NewReader(`{ "message": "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", "name": "Investigating", "notify_subscribers": false, "status": "investigating", "title": "We are investigating an issue", "update_type": "incident" }`) req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates", payload) req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("UP4_API_KEY")) req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json") res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req) if err != nil { panic(err) } defer res.Body.Close() out, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body) fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(out)) }

<?php $payload = <<<'JSON' { "message": "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", "name": "Investigating", "notify_subscribers": false, "status": "investigating", "title": "We are investigating an issue", "update_type": "incident" } JSON; $ch = curl_init("https://app.upfour.io/v1/status-page-templates"); curl_setopt_array($ch, [ CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [ "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("UP4_API_KEY"), "Content-Type: application/json", ], CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload, ]); $response = curl_exec($ch); echo curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE), " ", $response, "\n"; curl_close($ch);

{ "data": { "created_at": "2026-10-27T09:00:00Z", "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001", "message": "We are looking into reports of slow or failing requests.", "name": "Investigating", "notify_subscribers": false, "organization_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000002", "status": "investigating", "title": "We are investigating an issue", "update_type": "incident", "updated_at": "2026-10-27T09:00:00Z" } }