A PowerShell script that adds a data point to a StatusPage.io public metric.

StatusPageAPI-Metric-SubmitDataPoint.ps1

param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$metric_id,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][Float]$datapoint
)

$api_key = YourStatusPageAPIKey
$page_id = YourStatusPagePageID
$api_base = 'https://api.statuspage.io/v1'

$metricURI = $api_base+"/pages/"+$page_id+"/metrics/"+$metric_id+"/data.json"

$headers = @{Authorization = "OAuth "+$api_key}

#A good way to get a Unix timestamp.
$unixTimestamp = [int][double]::Parse(((Get-Date).ToUniversalTime() | Get-Date -UFormat %s ))

#Creating nested hashtables to be converted to the JSON structure StatusPage expects.
$params = @{
    timestamp = $unixTimestamp
    value = $datapoint 
}
$data = @{
    data = $params
}

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $metricURI -Method Post -Headers $headers -ContentType "application/json" -Body ($data | ConvertTo-Json)