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Manage how incidents are created and displayed

API Documentation 

Description 

Automated Incident Analysis

You can use the Automated Incident Analysis API to generate and re-generate incident summaries without using the BigPanda console.

Alert Enrichment V2.1

Define alert tags and enrichment maps that help users understand incidents more quickly and enrich BigPanda functionality, including correlation patterns and maintenance plans.

Alert Enrichment V2Alert Enrichment V2 API

Define alert tags and enrichment maps that help users understand incidents more quickly and enrich BigPanda functionality, including correlation patterns and maintenance plans.

Alert Enrichment V1 (Deprecating soon)

Define custom tags that help users understand incidents more quickly and enrich BigPanda functionality, including correlation patterns and maintenance plans.

Incident Tags

Assign tags to your incidents.

Incident Tags Definitions

Configure automatic tag rules.

Correlation Patterns 

Define how alerts are clustered into BigPanda incidents.

Environments 

Define environments and environment groups based on incident properties such as source, severity, or alert data.

Maintenance Plans V2 

Define time windows that parallel infrastructure changes of respective monitored services. Manages the suppression-type Maintenance Plans in the UI.

Alert Filters 

Define time windows that parallel infrastructure changes of respective monitored services. Manages the post-enrichment Alert Filtering in the UI.

Topology UI 

Customize the visual presentation of the topology graph.

Relevant Permissions

Roles with the following permission can access the related APIs and BigPanda Settings:

Role Name

Description

Alert Correlation

View, edit, and create new Correlation Patterns in BigPanda Settings and API.

Manage Environments

View, create, edit, and delete Environments in the UI and API, and view the incident tags environments contain. See Environment Permissions for more information.

Alert Filtering & Planned Maintenance

View, create, edit, and delete Alert Filters and Maintenance Plans.

Topology View

View, upload, or edit topology maps via API, and view the Topology section in incident details.

Permission access levels can be adjusted by selecting either View or Full Access. To learn more about how BigPanda's permissions work, see the Roles Management 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.

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.