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Preparations to use OpsGenie for alerting
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The request body may be enriched with the following fields that will be parsed by OpsGenie, while creating the alert based on the incoming request:
Field | Mandatory | Description | Limit | ||||||
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message |
| Message of the alert | 130 characters | ||||||
alias |
| This field is used for alert de-duplication. When there is an open alert with the same alias, no new alert is created, only a counter will be incremented. After closing this alert, and there is a new alert with the same alias sent in, a new alert will be created. | 512 characters | ||||||
description |
| Description field of the alert that is generally used to provide detailed information about the alert. | 15 000 characters | ||||||
tags |
| Tags of the alert. | 20 x 50 characters | ||||||
details |
| Map of key-value pairs to use as custom properties of the alert. | 8 000 characters total | ||||||
entity |
| Entity field of the alert that is generally used to specify, to which domain the alert is related. | 512 characters | ||||||
priority |
| Priority level of the alert. Possible values are P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5. Default value is P3. |
For more details, please read the Alert API documentation: https://docs.opsgenie.com/docs/alert-api