Get incident information API

Note

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Note

Try our new APIs using MS Graph security API. Find out more at: Use the Microsoft Graph security API - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn.

API description

Retrieves a specific incident by its ID

Limitations

1. Rate limitations for this API are 100 calls per minute and 1,500 calls per hour.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API.

Permission type	Permission	Permission display name
Application	Incident.Read.All	Read all Incidents
Application	Incident.ReadWrite.All	Read and write all Incidents
Delegated (work or school account)	Incident.Read	Read Incidents
Delegated (work or school account)	Incident.ReadWrite	Read and write Incidents

Note

When obtaining a token using user credentials:

• The user needs to have at least the following role permission: View Data
• The response will only include incidents that the user is exposed to

HTTP request

GET .../api/incidents/{id}

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	String	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Empty

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK, and the incident entity in the response body. If incident with the specified ID wasn't found - 404 Not Found.

Example

Request

Here's an example of the request.

GET https://api.security.microsoft.com/api/incidents/{id}

Related content

Use the Microsoft Graph security API - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn

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