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title: Create alert from event API
description: Creates an alert using event details
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---
# Create alert from event API
**Applies to:** [Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP)](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2069559)
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Create alert using event data, as obtained from [Advanced Hunting](run-advanced-query-api.md) for creating a new alert.
## Permissions
One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see [Use Microsoft Defender ATP APIs](apis-intro.md)
Permission type | Permission | Permission display name
:---|:---|:---
Application | Alerts.ReadWrite.All | 'Read and write all alerts'
Delegated (work or school account) | Alert.ReadWrite | 'Read and write alerts'
>[!Note]
> When obtaining a token using user credentials:
>- The user needs to have at least the following role permission: 'Alerts investigation' (See [Create and manage roles](user-roles.md) for more information)
>- The user needs to have access to the machine associated with the alert, based on machine group settings (See [Create and manage machine groups](machine-groups.md) for more information)
## HTTP request
```
POST https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/alerts/CreateAlertByReference
```
## Request headers
Name | Type | Description
:---|:---|:---
Authorization | String | Bearer {token}. **Required**.
Content-Type | String | application/json. **Required**.
## Request body
In the request body, supply the following values (all are required):
Property | Type | Description
:---|:---|:---
machineId | String | Id of the machine on which the event was identified. **Required**.
severity | String | Severity of the alert. The property values are: 'Low', 'Medium' and 'High'. **Required**.
title | String | Title for the alert. **Required**.
description | String | Description of the alert. **Required**.
recommendedAction| String | Action that is recommended to be taken by security officer when analyzing the alert. **Required**.
eventTime | DateTime(UTC) | The time of the event, as obtained from the advanced query. **Required**.
reportId | String | The reportId, as obtained from the advanced query. **Required**.
category| String | Category of the alert. The property values are: "General", "CommandAndControl", "Collection", "CredentialAccess", "DefenseEvasion", "Discovery", "Exfiltration", "Exploit", "Execution", "InitialAccess", "LateralMovement", "Malware", "Persistence", "PrivilegeEscalation", "Ransomware", "SuspiciousActivity" **Required**.
## Response
If successful, this method returns 200 OK, and a new [alert](alerts.md) object in the response body. If event with the specified properties (_reportId_, _eventTime_ and _machineId_) was not found - 404 Not Found.
## Example
**Request**
Here is an example of the request.
[!include[Improve request performance](improve-request-performance.md)]
```
POST https://api.securitycenter.windows.com/api/alerts/CreateAlertByReference
Content-Length: application/json
{
"machineId": "1e5bc9d7e413ddd7902c2932e418702b84d0cc07",
"severity": "Low",
"title": "test alert",
"description": "test alert",
"recommendedAction": "test alert",
"eventTime": "2018-08-03T16:45:21.7115183Z",
"reportId": "20776",
"category": "None"
}
```