Monitoring

Configure the integrated system to call the Alerts API endpoint:

https://api.bigpanda.io/data/v2/alerts

Use the following HTTP headers:

Authorization: Bearer <Your Org Bearer Token>
Content-Type: application/json

The JSON payload can contain all or a subset of the following fields:

For information on how to send multiple alerts or configure primary and secondary properties, see the Alerts API documentation.

Below is an example of a full payload:

{
"app_key": "<Your App Key>",
"status": "critical",
"host": "production-database-1",
"timestamp": 1402302570,
"check": "CPU overloaded",
"description": "CPU is above upper limit (70%)",
"cluster": "production-databases",
"my_unique_attribute": "my_unique_value"
}

To validate that everything is configured correctly, send a test alert by running the following command in Shell:

curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <Your Org Bearer Token>" \
https://api.bigpanda.io/data/v2/alerts \
-d '{ "app_key": "<Your App Key>", "status": "critical", "host": "production-database-1", "check": "CPU overloaded" }'

The alert should now appear in the Incidents dashboard. Close the alert by running:

curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <Your Org Bearer Token>" \
https://api.bigpanda.io/data/v2/alerts \
-d '{ "app_key": "<Your App Key>", "status": "ok", "host": "production-database-1", "check": "CPU overloaded" }'

To validate that everything is configured correctly, send a test alert by running the following command in PowerShell:

$json = @{ app_key = "<Your App Key>"; status = "critical"; alert = "Hello from PowerShell"; host = "testing" }
$url = "https://api.bigpanda.io/data/v2/alerts"
$headers = @{"Authorization" = "Bearer <Your Org Bearer Token>"}
Invoke-RestMethod $url -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $json -UseBasicParsing

The alert should now appear in the Incidents dashboard. Close the alert by running:

$json = @{ app_key = "<Your App Key>"; status = "ok"; alert = "Hello from PowerShell"; host = "testing" }
$url = "https://api.bigpanda.io/data/v2/alerts"
$headers = @{"Authorization" = "Bearer <Your Org Bearer Token>"}
Invoke-RestMethod $url -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $json -UseBasicParsing