Docs Menu
Docs Home
/
MongoDB Ops Manager
/
API
/
Resources
/
Measurements & Alerts
/
Global Alerts

Get One Global Alert

On this page

  • Required Roles
  • Request
  • Request Path Parameters
  • Request Query Parameters
  • Request Body Parameters
  • Response
  • Example Request
  • Example Response
  • Response Header
  • Response Body

Retrieve one alert identified with its ALERT-ID.

Required Roles

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

  • Global Owner

  • Global Monitoring Admin

Request

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

GET /globalAlerts/{ALERT-ID}

Request Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

ALERT-ID

string

Unique identifier of the alert you want to retrieve.

Request Query Parameters

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default

pretty

boolean

Optional

Flag indicating 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 one result, the response body includes:

Name
Description

status

HTTP response code

content

Expected response body

false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

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

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
     --header "Accept: application/json" \
     --include \
     --request GET "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/globalAlerts/{ALERT-ID}"

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    "alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
3    "created": "2019-11-30T12:42:31Z",
4    "eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
5    "groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
6    "id": "{ALERT-ID}",
7    "lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:25:05Z",
8    "links": [
9   ],
10   "status": "OPEN",
11   "tags": [],
12   "typeName": "AGENT",
13   "updated": "2019-11-30T12:42:31Z"
14}

Back

Get All

Next

Acknowledge One