down

An uptime site went down or came back up.

Fields

The table lists every field of the body. You can validate a delivery against this event’s JSON Schema.

Field	Type	Description
`event` required	"down"
`message` required	string	A one-line summary of the event, as notifications show it.
`payload_version` required	string	The integration's payload version. Allowed value: `v3`.
`actor`	object	The person who caused the event. Absent when Honeybadger did.
`actor.id` required	string \| null	The user's ID, or null when the person has no Honeybadger account.
`actor.name` required	string \| null
`actor.email` required	string \| null
`credential`	object	The API token or OAuth grant the event was caused through. Absent when the event wasn't caused through the API.
`credential.type` required	string	`ApiToken` for an API token, `OauthAccessToken` for an OAuth grant.
`credential.id` required	string
`credential.name` required	string \| null	The token's name. For an OAuth grant, the name the user gave the connection, or the application's name if none.
`project` required	object	The project the event belongs to.
`project.id` required	string
`project.name` required	string
`project.language` required	string \| null
`project.created_at` required	date-time
`project.links` required	object	Links into the Honeybadger web UI.
`project.links.web` required	uri	The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on.
`links` required	object	The page to open for this event.
`links.web` required	uri	The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on.
`site` required	object	The uptime site the event is about.
`site.id` required	uuid
`site.project_id` required	string
`site.name` required	string
`site.url` required	string	The checked URL, with any credentials in it removed.
`site.state` required	string	Allowed values: `pending`, `up`, `down`.
`site.frequency` required	integer	Minutes between checks. A value below the plan's floor is refused. Allowed values: `1`, `2`, `5`, `15`.
`site.last_checked_at` required	date-time \| null
`site.created_at` required	date-time
`site.links` required	object	Links into the Honeybadger web UI.
`site.links.web` required	uri	The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on.
`outage` required	object	The site's latest outage. Every field is null when the site has none on record. Outages have no page of their own; the site's `links` has its page.
`outage.id` required	uuid \| null
`outage.site_id` required	uuid \| null
`outage.down_at` required	date-time \| null
`outage.up_at` required	date-time \| null	Null while the site is still down.
`outage.duration_seconds` required	integer \| null	Null until the site is back up.
`outage.created_at` required	date-time \| null

Example

{
  "event": "down",
  "message": "[Billing API] Checkout is down.",
  "project": {
    "id": "H99upHsM",
    "name": "Billing API",
    "language": "ruby",
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults"
    }
  },
  "site": {
    "id": "8121ab91-87fd-4e92-ae23-a7b5bf915a2f",
    "project_id": "H99upHsM",
    "name": "Checkout",
    "url": "https://billing.example.com/health",
    "state": "down",
    "frequency": 5,
    "last_checked_at": "2026-10-21T12:35:26Z",
    "created_at": "2026-09-21T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/sites/8121ab91-87fd-4e92-ae23-a7b5bf915a2f"
    }
  },
  "outage": {
    "id": "c2dde716-bcc4-43dc-8212-9fa287505c94",
    "site_id": "8121ab91-87fd-4e92-ae23-a7b5bf915a2f",
    "down_at": "2026-10-21T12:29:26Z",
    "up_at": null,
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z"
  },
  "links": {
    "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/sites/8121ab91-87fd-4e92-ae23-a7b5bf915a2f"
  },
  "payload_version": "v3"
}