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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-notifications-backend': patch
+---
+
+Updated documentation for sending messages by external services.
diff --git a/plugins/notifications-backend/README.md b/plugins/notifications-backend/README.md
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@@ -71,7 +71,19 @@ export const myPlugin = createBackendPlugin({
 });
 ```
 
-## Sending notifications
+## Sending Notifications By Backend Plugins
 
-To be able to send notifications to users, you have to integrate the `@backstage/plugin-notifications-node`
-to your application and plugins.
+To be able to send notifications to users by other plugins, you have to integrate the `@backstage/plugin-notifications-node`
+to your application and plugins. For the API, please refer documentation there.
+
+## Sending Notifications By External Services
+
+External services can create new messages by sending POST request to the REST API.
+
+To be able to do so, `external access` needs to be enabled as described in the [documentation](https://backstage.io/docs/auth/service-to-service-auth), e.g. via the `static tokens`.
+
+Once the API can be accessed, the request can look like:
+
+```
+curl -X POST [YOUR_SERVER_URL]/api/notifications -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer [BASE64_ENCODED_ACCESS_TOKEN]" -d '{"recipients":{"type":"entity","entityRef":"user:development/guest"},"payload": {"title": "Title of user-targeted external message","description": "The description","link": "http://foo.com/bar","severity": "high","topic": "The topic"}}'
+```