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You may start using incident.io after having already run incidents within Slack in the past. If so, you’ll want to bring all the data with you when starting to use our product to make sure your team has the relevant information to hand, and to track trends in your incidents using our Insights.

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How to import

You’ll be using our API following the same steps outlined in the Creating your first incident using the API help article When making the API call to create the incident, make sure to:
  • Set mode within the request payload to "retrospective"
  • Set retrospective_incident_options.slack_channel_id within the request payload to the Slack channel ID
For example, the payload might look like: 
{
  "mode": "retrospective",
  "retrospective_incident_options": {
    "slack_channel_id": "C01DZSENFFT"
  },
  "custom_field_values": [],
  "severity_id": "01G0J1EXE7AXZ2C93K61WBPYEH"
}
After the incident has been created, the main events that occurred in the Slack channel will be used to generate the incident timeline, and your insights will be updated within an hour.

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FAQs

Bots can’t view the contents of archived channels, so you’ll need to enable privileged Slack access, which lets us temporarily unarchive the channel and read its contents. We’ll re-archive it once the import is complete.
No. incident.io creates a dedicated channel for each incident — there’s no way to convert an existing channel into one. To capture what happened in an existing channel, use the API import described above. To start a new incident from a specific message, use the three-dot menu shortcut.