Commit a84128fe authored by Laura Montemayor's avatar Laura Montemayor Committed by Achilleas Pipinellis

Adds docs to generic_alert.md

parent e280a837
# Generic alerts integration **(ULTIMATE)**
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/13203) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.3.
GitLab can accept alerts from any source via a generic webhook receiver.
When you set up the generic alerts integration, a unique endpoint will
be created which can receive a payload in JSON format, and will in turn
create an issue with the payload in the body of the issue. You can always
[customize the payload](#customizing-the-payload) to your liking.
The entire payload will be posted in the issue discussion as a comment
authored by the GitLab Alert Bot.
## Setting up generic alerts
To set up the generic alerts integration:
1. Navigate to **Settings > Integrations** in a project.
1. Click on **Alert endpoint**.
1. Toggle the **Active** alert setting. The `URL` and `Authorization Key` for the webhook configuration can be found there.
## Customizing the payload
You can customize the payload by sending the following parameters. All fields are optional:
| Property | Type | Description |
| -------- | ---- | ----------- |
| `title` | String | The title of the incident. If none is provided, then `New: Incident #N` will be used, where `#N` is the number of incident |
| `description` | String | A high-level summary of the problem. |
| `start_time` | DateTime | The time of the incident. If none is provided, a timestamp of the issue will be used. |
| `service` | String | The affected service. |
| `monitoring_tool` | String | The name of the associated monitoring tool. |
| `hosts` | String or Array | One or more hosts, as to where this incident ocurred. |
Example request:
```sh
curl --request POST --data '{"title": "Incident title"}' --header "Authorization: Bearer <autorization_key>" <url>
```
The `<autorization_key>` and `<url>` values can be found when [setting up generic alerts](#setting-up-generic-alerts).
Example payload:
```json
{
"title": "Incident title",
"description": "Short description of the incident",
"start_time": "2019-09-12T06:00:55Z",
"service": "service affected",
"monitoring_tool": "value",
"hosts": "value",
}
```
......@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Click on the service links to see further configuration instructions and details
| [Emails on push](emails_on_push.md) | Email the commits and diff of each push to a list of recipients |
| External Wiki | Replaces the link to the internal wiki with a link to an external wiki |
| Flowdock | Flowdock is a collaboration web app for technical teams |
| [Generic alerts](generic_alerts.md) **(ULTIMATE)** | Receive alerts on GitLab from any source |
| [GitHub](github.md) **(PREMIUM)** | Sends pipeline notifications to GitHub |
| [Hangouts Chat](hangouts_chat.md) | Receive events notifications in Google Hangouts Chat |
| [HipChat](hipchat.md) | Private group chat and IM |
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment