{"id":41,"date":"2011-12-12T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:29:01","slug":"new-api-methods-updates-about-alert-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/new-api-methods-updates-about-alert-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"New API Methods &amp; Updates (About Alert Contacts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/new-feature-each-monitor-can-have-different-alert-contacts\/\">release of monitor-specific alert contacts<\/a>, the <strong>API is updated<\/strong> accordingly and also gained some new methods.<\/p>\n<h3>Updates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><code>alertContactID<\/code>s should be sent when creating or editing monitors to define which alert contacts to be notified of up\/down events<\/li>\n<li><code>getMonitors<\/code> method can now return the alert contacts of a monitor with adding <code>showMonitorAlertContacts=1<\/code> to the querystring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>New Methods<\/h3>\n<p>There are 3 new methods and the names define their functionality well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>getAlertContacts<br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>newAlertContact<br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>deleteAlertContact<br \/>\n<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uptimerobot.com\/api\"><strong>API documentation<\/strong><\/a> is updated with all the new information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of monitor-specific alert contacts, the API is updated accordingly and also gained some new methods. 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