Creates a new notification channel, representing a single notification endpoint such as an email address, SMS number, or PagerDuty service.
Design your application to single-thread API calls that modify the state of notification channels in a single project. This includes calls to notificationChannels.create, notificationChannels.delete and notificationChannels.patch.
HTTP request
POST https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3/{name}/notificationChannels
Path parameters
Parameters
name
string
Required. The project on which to execute the request. The format is:
projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]
This names the container into which the channel will be written, this does not name the newly created channel. The resulting channel's name will have a normalized version of this field as a prefix, but will add /notificationChannels/[CHANNEL_ID] to identify the channel.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
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