Retrieve Authorized Alerts

Description

This action returns the list of alerts for which the entity_id could do a subscription, i.e., alerts that belongs to entity_id or alerts for which entity_id has read permission over its owner. In addition, the service also allows you to specify search criteria to filter alerts to be retrieved: filter by alert type and / or filter by trigger type.

http://<your_api_server.com>/catalog/alert/<entity_id>?<parameter>=<value>

The entity_id is optional and can be an Application or a Provider.

Format json
Method GET
Permission Reading
Return List of authorized alerts

Parameters

Key Description Optional
type Alert’s type filter Yes
trigger Trigger’s type filter Yes

Please, note the following observations:

  • The list of trigger’s types available are defined by the platform: Trigger types.
  • The possible values ​​for the alert type is also defined by the platform and are: INTERNAL, EXTERNAL.

Response data

As commented before, this action, in addition to the HTTP status code, returns the list of alerts for which entity_id has at least read permission.

Key Description Optional
alerts Alerts list (alert) Not

Every alert element has the following structure:

Key Description Optional
id Alert ID No
name Alert name Yes
description Alert description Yes
entity Related entity No
type Alert type No
trigger Trigger type No, but only returned for internal alerts
expression Expression to evaluate with the trigger No, but only returned for internal alerts
component Component identifier to which the sensor belongs No, but only returned for internal alerts
sensor Sensor identifier to which the alert applies No, but only returned for internal alerts

Examples

Request to retrieve all the authorized alerts

The following request shows an example to retrieve all the authorized alerts for rec entity:

http://<your_api_server.com>/catalog/alert/rec

and the response will be:

{
  "alerts" : [
    {
      "id" : "REC_ALERT_001",
      "name" : "REC_ALERT_001",
      "description" : "Custom alert to monitorize that maximum daily values for sensor REC_001 ranged from 60 and 80",
      "entity" : "SAMCLA",
      "type" : "EXTERNAL"
    },
    {
      "id" : "REC_ALERT_002",
      "name" : "REC_ALERT_002",
      "description" : "Internal alert to check if S00020114-0 value is greater than 45",
      "entity" : "SAMCLA",
      "type" : "INTERNAL",
      "trigger" : "GT",
      "expression" : "45",
      "component" : "S00020114",
      "sensor" : "S00020114-0"
    }
  ]
}

Request to retrieve all the authorized alerts filtered by type and trigger

The following request shows an example to retrieve all internal alerts for rec entity with trigger type equal to GT.

http://<your_api_server.com>/catalog/alert/rec?type=INTERNAL&trigger=GT

and the response will be:

{"alerts":[
   {
      "id" : "REC_ALERT_002",
      "name" : "REC_ALERT_002",
      "description" : "Internal alert to check if S00020114-0 value is greater than 45",
      "entity" : "SAMCLA",
      "type" : "INTERNAL",
      "trigger" : "GT",
      "expression" : "45",
      "component" : "S00020114",
      "sensor" : "S00020114-0"
    }
]}