## Create Silences

`client.Alerting.Silences.New(ctx, params) (*SilenceNewResponse, error)`

**post** `/accounts/{account_id}/alerting/v3/silences`

Creates a new silence for an account.

### Parameters

- `params SilenceNewParams`

  - `AccountID param.Field[string]`

    Path param: The account id

  - `Body param.Field[[]SilenceNewParamsBody]`

    Body param

    - `EndTime string`

      When the silence ends.

    - `PolicyID string`

      The unique identifier of a notification policy

    - `StartTime string`

      When the silence starts.

### Returns

- `type SilenceNewResponse struct{…}`

  - `Errors []SilenceNewResponseError`

    - `Message string`

    - `Code int64`

  - `Messages []SilenceNewResponseMessage`

    - `Message string`

    - `Code int64`

  - `Success SilenceNewResponseSuccess`

    Whether the API call was successful

    - `const SilenceNewResponseSuccessTrue SilenceNewResponseSuccess = true`

### Example

```go
package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"

  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/alerting"
  "github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/option"
)

func main() {
  client := cloudflare.NewClient(
    option.WithAPIToken("Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY"),
  )
  silence, err := client.Alerting.Silences.New(context.TODO(), alerting.SilenceNewParams{
    AccountID: cloudflare.F("023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"),
    Body: []alerting.SilenceNewParamsBody{alerting.SilenceNewParamsBody{

    }},
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err.Error())
  }
  fmt.Printf("%+v\n", silence.Errors)
}
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "message",
      "code": 1000
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "message": "message",
      "code": 1000
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}
```