Notifications

Alarms defines a policy that applies to a set of entities that are monitored, such as virtual machines in a project. A notification is generated when the condition of an alarm is observed for a given entity.

You can configure an alarm to post notifications to an external HTTP endpoint. Contrail Insights will post a JSON payload to the endpoint for each notification. The schema of the payload is as follows:

Note:

The string and 0 are generic placeholders to indicate type of value; string and number, respectively.

The spec object describes the alarm configuration for which this notification is generated. The status object describes the temporal event information for this particular notification, such as the time when the condition was observed and the entity on which the condition was observed. Table 1 describes the object string values.

Table 1: Object String Values
Value	Description
severity	Level of severity (critical, error, warning, information, none).
metricType	Measured value for hosts, instances and network devices. See Metrics Collected by Contrail Insights.
mode	One of two modes (alert, event).
module	The Analytics modules that generated the alarm (alarms, health/risk, service_alarms).
state	State of the alarm. For alert mode alarms, valid values are active, inactive, learning. For event mode alarms, the state is always triggered.
threshold	Units of threshold correspond to metricType.
entityType	One of instance, host, service, network device.
entityId	UUID of the entity.
entityDetails	Supplemental details about an entity. The contents of this object depend on the entityType. For a host or service, the object is empty. For an instance, the object contains hostId and projectId. { "entityDetails": { "hostId": "uuid", "projectId": "uuid" } }