---
canonical: https://grafana.com/docs/oncall/latest/oncall-api-reference/alertgroups/
title: Alert groups HTTP API
weight: 0
refs:
  pagination:
    - pattern: /docs/oncall/
      destination: /docs/oncall/<ONCALL_VERSION>/oncall-api-reference/#pagination
    - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
      destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/oncall/oncall-api-reference/#pagination
---

# Alert groups HTTP API

## List alert groups

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:read`

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/" \
  --request GET \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json"
```

The above command returns JSON structured in the following way:

```json
{
  "count": 1,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "I68T24C13IFW1",
      "integration_id": "CFRPV98RPR1U8",
      "route_id": "RIYGUJXCPFHXY",
      "alerts_count": 3,
      "state": "resolved",
      "created_at": "2020-05-19T12:37:01.430444Z",
      "resolved_at": "2020-05-19T13:37:01.429805Z",
      "acknowledged_at": null,
      "acknowledged_by": null,
      "resolved_by": "UCGEIXI1MR1NZ",
      "title": "Memory above 90% threshold",
      "permalinks": {
        "slack": "https://ghostbusters.slack.com/archives/C1H9RESGA/p135854651500008",
        "telegram": "https://t.me/c/5354/1234?thread=1234"
      },
      "silenced_at": "2020-05-19T13:37:01.429805Z",
      "last_alert": {
        "id": "AA74DN7T4JQB6",
        "alert_group_id": "I68T24C13IFW1",
        "created_at": "2020-05-11T20:08:43Z",
        "payload": {
          "state": "alerting",
          "title": "[Alerting] Test notification",
          "ruleId": 0,
          "message": "Someone is testing the alert notification within Grafana.",
          "ruleUrl": "{{API_URL}}/",
          "ruleName": "Test notification",
          "evalMatches": [
            {
              "tags": null,
              "value": 100,
              "metric": "High value"
            },
            {
              "tags": null,
              "value": 200,
              "metric": "Higher Value"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
    }
  ],
  "current_page_number": 1,
  "page_size": 50,
  "total_pages": 1
}
```

> **Note**: The response is [paginated](ref:pagination). You may need to make multiple requests to get all records.

These available filter parameters should be provided as `GET` arguments:

- `id` (Exact match, alert group ID)
- `route_id` (Exact match, route ID)
- `integration_id` (Exact match, integration ID)
- `label` (Matching labels, can be passed multiple times; expected format: `key1:value1`)
- `team_id` (Exact match, team ID)
- `started_at` (A "{start}_{end}" ISO 8601 timestamp range; expected format: `%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S_%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S`)
- `state` (Possible values: `new`, `acknowledged`, `resolved` or `silenced`)

**HTTP request**

`GET {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/`

## Alert group details

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:read`

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1" \
  --request GET \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`GET {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>`

## Acknowledge an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/acknowledge" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/acknowledge`

## Unacknowledge an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/unacknowledge" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/unacknowledge`

## Resolve an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/resolve" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/resolve`

## Unresolve an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/unresolve" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/unresolve`

## Silence an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/silence" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
      "delay": 10800
  }'
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/silence`

| Parameter | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|-----------|:--------:|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `delay`    |    Yes    | The duration of silence in seconds, `-1` for silencing the alert forever |

## Unsilence an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write` (user authentication only)

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/unsilence" \
  --request POST \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow"
```

**HTTP request**

`POST {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>/unsilence`

## Delete an alert group

**Required permission**: `grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write`

```shell
curl "{{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/I68T24C13IFW1/" \
  --request DELETE \
  --header "Authorization: meowmeowmeow" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
      "mode": "wipe"
  }'
```

| Parameter | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|-----------|:--------:|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `mode`    |    No    | The default value for this parameter is `wipe`. Using `wipe` will delete the content of the alert group but keep the metadata, which is helpful if you've sent sensitive information to OnCall. On the other hand, passing `delete` will fully erase the alert group and its metadata, as well as delete related messages in Slack and other platforms. |

> **NOTE:** `DELETE` can take a few moments to delete alert groups because Grafana OnCall interacts with 3rd party APIs
> such as Slack. Please check objects using `GET` to be sure the data is removed.

**HTTP request**

`DELETE {{API_URL}}/api/v1/alert_groups/<ALERT_GROUP_ID>`