Get All Open Alerts Triggered by One Global Alert Configuration

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Retrieve all open alerts triggered by a global alert configuration identified by its GLOBAL-ALERT-CONFIG-ID.

Required Roles

You can successfully call this endpoint with any of the following assigned roles:

Request

Base URL: https://{OPSMANAGER-HOST}:{PORT}/api/public/v1.0

GET /globalAlertConfigs/{GLOBAL-ALERT-CONFIG-ID}/alerts

Request Path Parameters

Name	Type	Necessity	Description
`{GLOBAL-ALERT-CONFIG-ID}`	string	Required	Unique identifier of the global alert configuration for which you want to retrieve open alerts.

Request Query Parameters

Name	Type	Necessity	Description	Default
pageNum	number	Optional	One-based integer that returns a subsection of results.	`1`
itemsPerPage	number	Optional	Number of items to return per page, up to a maximum of 500.	`100`
pretty	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.	`false`
envelope	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set `envelope : true` in the query. For endpoints that return a list of results, the `content` object is an envelope. Ops Manager adds the `status` field to the response body.	`false`

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

Response Document

The response JSON document includes an array of result objects, an array of link objects and a count of the total number of result objects retrieved.

Name	Type	Description
`results`	array	Array includes one object for each item detailed in the `results` Embedded Document section.
`links`	array	Array includes one or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.
`totalCount`	number	Integer count of the total number of items in the result set. It may be greater than the number of objects in the results array if the entire result set is paginated.

`results` Embedded Document

Each result is one alert.

Name

Type

Description

acknowledgedUntil

string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC through which the alert has been acknowledged. Ops Manager presents this field if a user acknowledged this alert.

acknowledgementComment

string

Comment that the user who acknowledged this alert left. Ops Manager presents this field if a user acknowledged this alert.

acknowledgingUsername

string

Ops Manager username of the user who acknowledged the alert. Ops Manager presents this field if a user acknowledged this alert.

alertConfigId

string

Unique identifier of the global alert configuration that triggered this alert.

clusterId

string

Unique identifier of the cluster to which this alert applies. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the categories of:

clusterName

string

Name the cluster to which this alert applies. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the categories of:

created

string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the alert was created.

currentValue

object

Current value of the metric that triggered the alert. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the category of host.

currentValue.number

number

Current value of the metric.

currentValue.units

string

Units for currentValue.number. The units depend on the type of metric.

Accepted values are:

RAW
BITS
BYTES
KILOBITS
KILOBYTES
MEGABITS
MEGABYTES
GIGABITS
GIGABYTES
TERABYTES
PETABYTES
MILLISECONDS
SECONDS
MINUTES
HOURS
DAYS

For example, a metric that measures memory consumption can use BYTES, while a metric that measures time can use HOURS.

eventTypeName

string

Name of the event that triggered the alert.

To review the types of events that generate alerts, see Alert Types.

For a complete list of events included in the Ops Manager audit log, see Audit Events.

groupId

string

Unique identifier of the project for which this alert was opened.

hostId

string

Unique identifier of the host to which the metric pertains. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the categories of:

hostnameAndPort

string

Hostname and port of each host to which the alert applies. The hostname can be only a hostname, an FQDN, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the categories of:

id

string

Unique identifier of the alert.

lastNotified

string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the last notification was sent for this alert. Ops Manager displays this if Ops Manager sent notifications.

metricName

string

Name of the measurement whose value went outside the threshold. Ops Manager returns this field if "eventTypeName" : "OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD".

For possible values, see Measurement Types for Global Alerts.

replicaSetName

string

Name of the replica set. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the categories of:

resolved

string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the alert was closed. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts when "status" : "CLOSED".

sourceTypeName

string

Type of host being backed up. Ops Manager returns this field for global alerts in the category of backup. Possible values that can be returned include:

REPLICA_SET
SHARDED_CLUSTER
CONFIG_SERVER

status

string

Current state of the alert. Possible values that can be returned include:

`TRACKING`	Alert conditions exist, but the condition hasn't persisted for long enough to trigger an alert.
`OPEN`	Alert is open.
`CLOSED`	Alert is closed.
`CANCELLED`	Alert is cancelled.

tags

array of strings

Tags associated with this alert.

typeName

string

This field is deprecated and will be ignored.

updated

string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when this alert was last updated.

Example Request

1 curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
2      --header "Accept: application/json" \
3      --include \
4      --request GET "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/globalAlertConfigs/{GLOBAL-ALERT-CONFIG-ID}/alerts"

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

1 {
2   "links": [],
3   "results": [{
4     "alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
5     "created": "2019-11-29T20:26:30Z",
6     "eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
7     "groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
8     "id": "{ALERT-ID}",
9     "lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:21:00Z",
10     "links": [],
11     "status": "OPEN",
12     "tags": [],
13     "typeName": "AGENT",
14     "updated": "2019-11-29T20:26:30Z"
15   },
16   {
17     "alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
18     "created": "2019-11-29T20:43:00Z",
19     "eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
20     "groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
21     "id": "{ALERT-ID}",
22     "lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:21:54Z",
23     "links": [],
24     "status": "OPEN",
25     "tags": [],
26     "typeName": "AGENT",
27     "updated": "2019-11-29T20:43:00Z"
28   },
29   {
30     "alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
31     "created": "2019-11-30T12:27:07Z",
32     "eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
33     "groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
34     "id": "{ALERT-ID}",
35     "lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:20:33Z",
36     "links": [],
37     "status": "OPEN",
38     "tags": [],
39     "typeName": "AGENT",
40     "updated": "2019-11-30T12:27:07Z"
41   }
42   ],
43   "totalCount": 3
44 }

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1	curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
2	--header "Accept: application/json" \
3	--include \
4	--request GET "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/globalAlertConfigs/{GLOBAL-ALERT-CONFIG-ID}/alerts"

1	{
2	"links": [],
3	"results": [{
4	"alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
5	"created": "2019-11-29T20:26:30Z",
6	"eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
7	"groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
8	"id": "{ALERT-ID}",
9	"lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:21:00Z",
10	"links": [],
11	"status": "OPEN",
12	"tags": [],
13	"typeName": "AGENT",
14	"updated": "2019-11-29T20:26:30Z"
15	},
16	{
17	"alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
18	"created": "2019-11-29T20:43:00Z",
19	"eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
20	"groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
21	"id": "{ALERT-ID}",
22	"lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:21:54Z",
23	"links": [],
24	"status": "OPEN",
25	"tags": [],
26	"typeName": "AGENT",
27	"updated": "2019-11-29T20:43:00Z"
28	},
29	{
30	"alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
31	"created": "2019-11-30T12:27:07Z",
32	"eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
33	"groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
34	"id": "{ALERT-ID}",
35	"lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:20:33Z",
36	"links": [],
37	"status": "OPEN",
38	"tags": [],
39	"typeName": "AGENT",
40	"updated": "2019-11-30T12:27:07Z"
41	}
42	],
43	"totalCount": 3
44	}

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Response

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results Embedded Document

Example Request

Example Response

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`results` Embedded Document