Report form
A link that lets staff, suppliers or customers report an incident or a security concern without a login. Each report becomes an alert in Incident Management.
The Report form alert source gives you a link to a simple web form. Anyone you hand the link to, staff, suppliers, customers, can report something that looks wrong without an account and without technical knowledge. Each report opens an alert in the source's team, with the same routing, grouping and escalation as any other source.
It covers the requirement of NIS-2 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690, Annex 3.3, that staff and relevant third parties can report incidents and suspicious events.
1. Create the source
Go to Incident Management → Alert Sources → New, pick Report form, name it and choose the team. On the success screen, copy the link. It has the shape https://uptimeify.io/report/<token> (the German form: /de/report/<token>) and is shown once. If you lose it, rotate the token from the source's Settings tab; the old link keeps working for 7 days.
Share the link wherever people will find it: the intranet, the supplier portal, your security policy, an email signature.
2. What the form asks
| Field | Required | Becomes |
|---|---|---|
| What happened? | Yes, 10 to 4000 characters | The alert title (its first eight words) and the description field |
| Since when? | No, free text | The since field |
| Who is affected? (nobody, a few, many) | No | The suggested severity and the impact field |
| Do you suspect an attack? (yes, no, don't know) | No, defaults to "don't know" | The suspectedAttack field |
| Name, email | No | Only the alert's raw payload, under reporter |
The page shows only your organization's name. It is not indexed by search engines and sends no referrer.
Severity
The severity is a suggestion from the reporter's own estimate, your team re-rates it during triage:
| Who is affected? | Severity |
|---|---|
| Nobody | sev4 |
| A few people | sev3 |
| Many people | sev2 |
| Not answered | sev3 |
Every report opens its own alert (dedupKey form:<random id>), so two people reporting the same thing are two voices, not a duplicate.
Abuse protection
The link is public by design, so the form carries the same protection as other public forms on uptimeify.io: a hidden honeypot field, a minimum fill time, and a quota of 3 reports per sender per hour and 30 reports per form per hour. The sender's IP address is only used as a daily changing pseudonym for the quota and is not stored with the report. A discarded submission gets the same confirmation as an accepted one.
The form's link only works with the form. The webhook endpoint answers a form token with 404, and HMAC or Bearer authentication do not apply to a form source.
Personal data
Name and email are optional and the form says so. They stay in the alert's raw payload, which is cleared after 90 days like every other source's raw payload. The fields description, since, impact and suspectedAttack are part of the alert like any mapped field. For the reports, your organization is the controller and Uptimeify processes them on your behalf under the data processing agreement.
Mapping
A form source always has this fixed mapping; a payloadMapping sent when creating it is ignored. Test it with test-mapping by passing a payload (a form source has no sample):
{
"title": "title",
"severity": "severity",
"severityMap": { "sev1": "sev1", "sev2": "sev2", "sev3": "sev3", "sev4": "sev4" },
"dedupKey": "dedupKey",
"custom": {
"description": "description",
"since": "since",
"impact": "impact",
"suspectedAttack": "suspectedAttack"
}
}Forward or route alert emails from any monitoring tool, ticketing system, or mailbox to a dedicated inbound address, and turn them into incidents automatically.
Alert Sources API
Create, configure and test Incident Management alert sources: ingest tokens, optional HMAC or Bearer authentication, payload mapping, maintenance windows and per-source statistics.