---
title: "Create"
method: POST
path: "/backends/tunnel_group"
tags: ["TunnelGroupBackends"]
---

# Create

`POST /backends/tunnel_group`

Create a new TunnelGroup backend

## Headers

- `ngrok-version` integer, required

## Request body

- TunnelGroupBackendCreate
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this backend. Optional
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this backend. Optional
  - `labels` object — labels to watch for tunnels on, e.g. app->foo, dc->bar

## Response `201`

Create a new TunnelGroup backend

- TunnelGroupBackend
  - `id` string — unique identifier for this TunnelGroup backend
  - `uri` string — URI of the TunnelGroupBackend 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
  - `labels` object — labels to watch for tunnels on, e.g. app->foo, dc->bar
  - `tunnels` Ref[] — tunnels matching this backend
    - `id` string — a resource identifier
    - `uri` string — a uri for locating a resource

---

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