# PulseWatch Incidents API

> PulseWatch Incidents API is a paid API for AI agents from api.pulsewatch.us, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Retrieves incident history and current status for a named vendor or service, including severity, timeline, and resolution details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.pulsewatch.us/v1/incidents?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pulsewatch-incidents-api-11b09012
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uVq39hdedw29HdVK3szkI

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability pulsewatch-incidents-api-11b09012
```

Example prompt: Can you check PulseWatch for any recent incidents or outages reported for Stripe?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured incident history or live outage status for a specific named vendor, especially third-party services your application depends on. It is particularly useful for automated dependency health checks, post-mortem research, or alerting pipelines. Prefer this over generic web search when you need machine-readable incident records with timestamps and severity levels rather than unstructured status page text.

## Known failure modes

- Vendor not found — returns empty incident list or null vendor if the name/slug/domain doesn't match a tracked service
- Rate limit or payment failure — HTTP 402 if USDC payment is not attached or insufficient
- Invalid vendor string — validation error if vendor param is under 2 or over 100 characters
- Stale data — checked_at timestamp may lag real-time if PulseWatch hasn't recently crawled the vendor's status page

## How this service works

PulseWatch manages 11 data types including abuse signals. Helps you organize, track, and share your work in 1 place for teams and solo users.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the matched vendor details, a list of incidents with title, severity (e.g. high/medium/low), status (active or resolved), start and resolution timestamps, a total incident count, the canonical source URL for the vendor's status page on PulseWatch, and a checked_at timestamp indicating when the data was last refreshed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "vendor"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "vendor": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 100,
       "minLength": 2,
       "description": "Vendor name, slug or domain, e.g. 'Stripe', 'stripe' or stripe.com"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": {
   "kind": "name",
   "value": "stripe"
  },
  "vendor": {
   "name": "Stripe",
   "slug": "stripe"
  },
  "incidents": [
   {
    "url": "https://pulsewatch.us/service/stripe",
    "title": "[HIGH] Detected: Stripe — elevated API errors",
    "status": "resolved",
    "severity": "high",
    "started_at": "2026-09-30T14:02:00Z",
    "resolved_at": "2026-09-30T14:40:00Z"
   }
  ],
  "checked_at": "2026-10-10T03:35:41Z",
  "source_url": "https://pulsewatch.us/service/stripe",
  "data_source": {
   "url": "https://pulsewatch.us",
   "name": "PulseWatch"
  },
  "incident_count": 1
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/pulsewatch-incidents-api-11b09012/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.pulsewatch.us](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.pulsewatch.us/llms.txt)