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Alert and Incident Management APIs

API

Description

Batch Alert Resolver

Resolve individual alerts in bulk.

Incidents V2

Retrieve incident data, merge incidents, or add comments to incidents in BigPanda

Incidents (Deprecating soon)

Retrieve incident data or update an existing incident.

Relevant Permissions

Resolver permissions are defined by environment role access. To resolve alerts, a user will need access to take action on alerts in the specified environment or all environments.

Name

Permissions

Environments_Incident_Actions

Resolve alerts from any environment

Environments_Full_Access

Resolve alerts from any environment

\*\_Incident_Actions

Granular - Resolve alerts from the specified environment

To learn more about how BigPanda's permissions work, see the RBAC - Role Based Access Control guide.

Authentication

All BigPanda APIs require Bearer Token Authorization in the call headers.

This API uses the User API Key type of Authorization token.

BigPanda recommends adding Authentication headers only in the secure tool you use to make API calls.

Batch Alert Resolution Rate limitations

To maintain quality of service, the Batch Alert Resolution API is limited to 1 call per second with no more than 500 alerts per request

Additional requests will return a 429 response code and the request will need to be retried.

API rate limitations

To maintain quality of service, BigPanda APIs are limited to 5 requests per second. Additional requests will return a 429 response code and the request will need to be retried.