Statuspage.io (Inbound)

AlertOps and Statuspage.io

AlertOps’ alert management system can be integrated with Statuspage to receive and respond to all (predefined status mappings) alerts through email, SMS, push notification or phone alerts. AlertOps would ensure that the alert/job status would reach the appropriate team by using proper workflows, escalation policies and schedules. Based on your ruleset, incidents can be automatically opened and closed, depending on whether Statuspage reports an active incident or a resolved incident.

The above scenario and scope for integration is due to the fact that AlertOps has a very flexible and simple API/Webhook configuration feature that can be leveraged with Statuspage's subscription feature.

AlertOps - Inbound Integration

We can define rulesets in AlertOps so that Statuspage can send out alerts to the AlertOps platform. AlertOps would ensure based on these notifications received, that it would always reach out and assign to the correct person/team by utilizing its escalation policies, schedules, and workflow features.

AlertOps provides Inbound Integrations to integrate with numerous monitoring, chat and ITSM tools. You can configure an inbound integration for Statuspage .

At a high level this is how the flow looks like, you define an API integration in the AlertOps platform by defining settings like Integration Name, Escalation rules, recipient users/groups. Once an integration is defined, a unique API URL is generated. This acts as webhook or the gateway through which notifications from Statuspage reach AlertOps and thus an incident/alert is created correspondingly. The API can be defined with various settings like URL mappings, filters, escalations etc. as required. Statuspage has to be setup with a Webhook Subscription.

To configure an Inbound Integration in AlertOps to receive alerts from Statuspage,

1. Navigate to Configuration à Integrations à Inbound Integrations', 
2. Slect the category 'API' and then select add 'Add API Integration'
3. Select Statuspage
4. Specify basic settings like the integration name, escalation policy, names of the recipients/groups for which the alerts must be assigned to.
5. Click Save, the API Integration will be created, and you will be given a unique URL which acts as the access point and needs to be configured at the source (in this case Statuspage), to send alerts. You can find the integration you just created, and you can give advanced settings and define various configurations for the alerts to be received and processed. For example, you can define when to open and close alerts based on the payload obtained from the API call, filters etc.

User can similarly define URL mappings as you want, owing to the flexibility provided by AlertOps’ OpenAPI/Plug-and-Play integrations. You can provide other filters and match with regex expressions as well. Also, test the generated URL with the sample data provided.

Configuration of Statuspage for the integration

1. In your Statuspage.io portal, select your project page and select 'Subscribers'
2. Under 'Options' select 'Add subscriber'.
3. Select Subscriber Type as Webhook and under Endpoint URL, paste the AlertOps Inbound Integration API URL
4. Add Subscriber.

Thats it! You have configured a Webhook Subscription. Any Statuspage alert would now be sent to AlertOps for incident management.

Message logs, alert specific information can be viewed in the “Inbound Log” section in AlertOps Dashboard. Alerts can be viewed in the ‘Alerts’ tab as well.

Alert Triggering Information:

AlertOps will automatically create an incident when a new alert is received from Statuspage when the incident^status field contains 'investigating/identified'.

If an alert with status 'investigating/identified' matches an existing Open Alert, AlertOps will recognize the new alert as a duplicate and ignore the alert.

The alert will be recorded in the Inbound Messages table as “Mapped Appended.”

AlertOps will automatically close the same incident when an alert with incident^status contains 'resolved'.