# Add a channel

> tidekeeper's API reference: https://tidekeeper.eu/docs/api/post-channels

`POST /api/v1/channels`

Add a channel for alerts.

## What to send

`ChannelCreate`

- `config` (object, needed): The kind's own settings: `{"to": ["me@example.org"]}` for email, `{"url": "…", "secret": "…"}` for a webhook, `{"topic": "…"}` for ntfy.
- `kind` (string, needed)
- `kinds` (list of string or null): Left out, the kinds a new channel is told about by default.
- `name` (string, needed)

## The answer

201, `ChannelView`: Somewhere alerts go. Its secrets are never sent back: `target` says where it points with them left out.

- `created_at` (string, needed)
- `declared` (boolean, needed): From the instance's configuration: not edited here.
- `disabled` (boolean, needed)
- `id` (string, needed)
- `kind` (string, needed): `alertmanager`, `email`, `webhook`, `ntfy`, `discord`, `slack`, `telegram`.
- `kinds` (list of string, needed): The alerts this channel is told about: its row of the matrix.
- `name` (string, needed)
- `target` (string, needed)

## Asking

```sh
curl -X POST https://tidekeeper.eu/api/v1/channels \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $TIDEKEEPER_TOKEN" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"config": {}, "kind": "…", "name": "…"}'
```