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AlertOps and Sysdig
AlertOps’ alert management system can be integrated with Sysdig 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 what kind of event Sysdig reports.
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 Sysdig's alert and notification capabilities.
AlertOps - Inbound Integration
We can define rulesets in AlertOps so that Sysdig 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 Sysdig.
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 Sysdig 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. Sysdig has to be configured with a webhook notification channel and that channel has to be attached to an alert.
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Configure Inbound Integration in AlertOps
- Navigate to Configuration àIntegrations àAdd API Integration à API Integration Detail page.
- Select Sysdig
- Once you selected the integration, you can then specify basic settings like the integration name, escalation policy, names of the recipients/groups for which the alerts must be assigned to.
- Once you 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 Sysdig), 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.
- Make a note of the API URL, which will be used in Sysdig, so it calls a HTTP POST request to this URL with the body in JSON format containing the alert specific information. AlertOps automatically creates an alert when the status variable (state) contains 'ACTIVE'. The incident will also be closed automatically when the status 'OK' is received from Sysdig.
- In Advanced Settings you can similarly define URL mappings as you want in the Rules for Opening and Closing Alerts. You can provide other filters and match with regex expressions as well. You can also test the generated URL with the sample data provided.
Configure Integration in Sysdig
- In your Sysdig Monitor portal, select your profile and go to Settings.
- Select Notification Channels and click '+Add Notification Channel'. Select Webhook
- Give the channel a name, and in the URL field, paste the AlertOps Inbound Integration API Endpoint.
- Leave the rest of the configuration as default (or as per the screenshot below) and Save. You can test the webhook.
- Make sure that when you create/manage alerts in Sysdig, you have the AlertOps Notification Channel webhook selected under the 'Notify' section.
Thats it! You have configured a webhook notification channel and these should be attached to different alerts in Sysdig. Any alert will 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 Sysdig when the state contains "ACTIVE".
If an alert with status "ACTIVE" 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 state contains "OK".