---
title: "Create"
method: POST
path: "/backends/failover"
tags: ["FailoverBackends"]
---

# Create

`POST /backends/failover`

Create a new Failover backend

## Headers

- `ngrok-version` integer, required

## Request body

- FailoverBackendCreate
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this backend. Optional
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this backend. Optional
  - `backends` string[] — the ids of the child backends in order

## Response `201`

Create a new Failover backend

- FailoverBackend
  - `id` string — unique identifier for this Failover backend
  - `uri` string — URI of the FailoverBackend API resource
  - `created_at` string — timestamp when the backend was created, RFC 3339 format
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this backend. Optional
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this backend. Optional
  - `backends` string[] — the ids of the child backends in order

---

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