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POST /v1/monitors

Create a saved-search monitor with optional webhook or email delivery destination
Audience: application and coding agent.

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Canonical metadata

  • requestId
  • traceparent

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Example request

curl -X POST \
  -H "x-api-key: $OMNI_DATASTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -H "omni-version: 2026-03-19" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{}' \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/monitors"

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Example response

{
  "requestId": "req_example_123",
  "traceparent": "00-4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736-00f067aa0ba902b7-01"
}

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Give this prompt to your agent

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Failure posture

  • treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
  • preserve requestId and traceparent in logs and downstream reports
  • if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff