Get One Global Alert¶

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Retrieve one alert identified with its ALERT-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 /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
envelope	Expected response body

false

Request Body Parameters¶

This endpoint does not 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 in which this value is expressed. Depends on the type of metric.

Example

A metric that measures memory consumption would have a byte measurement
A metric that measures time would have a time unit.

Possible values that can be returned include:

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

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¶

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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¶

{
    "alertConfigId": "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
    "created": "2019-11-30T12:42:31Z",
    "eventTypeName": "BACKUP_AGENT_DOWN",
    "groupId": "{PROJECT-ID}",
    "id": "{ALERT-ID}",
    "lastNotified": "2020-04-09T20:25:05Z",
    "links": [
   ],
   "status": "OPEN",
   "tags": [],
   "typeName": "AGENT",
   "updated": "2019-11-30T12:42:31Z"
}

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