## Create Silences

`alerting.silences.create(SilenceCreateParams**kwargs)  -> SilenceCreateResponse`

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

Creates a new silence for an account.

### Parameters

- `account_id: str`

  The account id

- `body: Iterable[Body]`

  - `end_time: Optional[str]`

    When the silence ends.

  - `policy_id: Optional[str]`

    The unique identifier of a notification policy

  - `start_time: Optional[str]`

    When the silence starts.

### Returns

- `class SilenceCreateResponse: …`

  - `errors: List[Error]`

    - `message: str`

    - `code: Optional[int]`

  - `messages: List[Message]`

    - `message: str`

    - `code: Optional[int]`

  - `success: Literal[true]`

    Whether the API call was successful

    - `true`

### Example

```python
import os
from cloudflare import Cloudflare

client = Cloudflare(
    api_token=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
silence = client.alerting.silences.create(
    account_id="023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
    body=[{}],
)
print(silence.errors)
```

#### Response

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