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Acknowledge One Alert

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {PROJECT-ID} is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. This page uses the more familiar term group when referring to descriptions. The endpoint remains as stated in the document.

Resource

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

PATCH /groups/{PROJECT-ID}/alerts/{ALERT-ID}

Request Path Parameters

Parameter Type Necessity Description
PROJECT-ID string Required Unique identifier for the Project in which this alert is set.
ALERT-ID string Required Unique identifier for the Alert.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

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

Field Type Necessity Description
acknowledged
Until
string Conditional

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC until which the alert should be acknowledged.

  • To acknowledge an alert “forever”, set the field value to a large number of years in the future. Recommend setting to 100 years in the future.
  • To unacknowledge an acknowledged alert, remove this parameter from your request.
acknowledgement
Comment
string Optional

Text description of the reason for this acknowledgement.

Cloud Manager displays the comment next to the message that the alert has been acknowledged.

Response

The fields in the return document depend on the alert type:

Name Type Description
acknowledged
Until
string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC until which the alert has been acknowledged.

Cloud Manager returns this value if the alert has been acknowledged.

acknowledgement
Comment
string

Comment left by the user who acknowledged the alert.

Cloud Manager returns this value if the alert has been acknowledged.

acknowledging
Username
string

Username of the user who acknowledged the alert.

Cloud Manager returns this value if the alert has been acknowledged.

alertConfigId string Unique identifier for the alert configuration that triggered this alert.
clusterId string

Unique identifier for the cluster to which this alert applies.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" : "SHARDED_CLUSTER"

clusterName string

Name of the cluster to which this alert applies.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" : "SHARDED_CLUSTER"

created string Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the alert was opened.
currentValue object

Current value of the metric that triggered the alert.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" : "OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD".

currentValue
.number
number Value of the metric.
currentValue
.units
string

Units for the value. Value depends on the type of metric.

Example

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

Cloud Manager can return:

  • 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.

groupId string Unique identifier of the group for which this alert was opened.
hostId string

unique identifier for the host to which the metric pertains.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" was set to one of the following:

  • HOST_DOWN
  • OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD
  • REPLICA_SET
hostnameAndPort string

Hostname and port of each host to which the alert applies. This can be a hostname, an FQDN, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" was set to one of the following:

  • HOST_DOWN
  • OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD
  • REPLICA_SET
id string Unique identifier for the alert.
lastNotified string Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the last notification was sent for this alert. Cloud Manager returns this value if notifications have been sent.
links array of objects One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. All links arrays in responses include at least one link called self. The relationships between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.
metricName string

Name of the measurement whose value went outside the threshold.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" was set to OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD.

For possible values, see Measurement Types for Alerts.

replicaSetName string

Name of the replica set.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "eventTypeName" was set to one of the following:

  • BACKUP
  • HOST_DOWN
  • OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD
  • REPLICA_SET
resolved string

Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the alert was closed.

Cloud Manager returns this value if "status" : "CLOSED".

status string

Current state of the alert. Cloud Manager can return one of the following:

  • TRACKING

    The alert condition exists but has not persisted beyond the defined notification delay. For details, see Request Query Parameters.

  • OPEN

  • CLOSED

  • CANCELLED

sourceTypeName string

Type of host being backed up when "eventTypeName" : "BACKUP". Cloud Manager can return one of the following:

  • REPLICA_SET
  • SHARDED_CLUSTER
  • CONFIG_SERVER
tags string array Identifying labels set for this alert.
typeName string Deprecated field. |mms| ignores it.
updated string Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the alert was last updated.

Example Request

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
     --header "Accept: application/json" \
     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --include \
     --request PATCH "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/groups/{PROJECT-ID}/alerts/{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}"
     --data '
       {
         "acknowledgedUntil": "2016-04-15T00:00:00-0400",
         "acknowledgementComment": "This is normal. Please ignore."
       }'

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

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{
  "id" : "{ALERT-CONFIG-ID}",
  "groupId" : "{PROJECT-ID}",
  "eventTypeName" : "OUTSIDE_METRIC_THRESHOLD",
  "status" : "OPEN",
  "acknowledgedUntil" : "2014-04-15T04:00:00Z",
  "acknowledgementComment" : "This is normal. Please ignore.",
  "acknowledgingUsername" : "someuser@example.com",
  "created" : "2014-04-03T20:28:14Z",
  "updated" : "2014-04-03T20:33:14Z",
  "lastNotified" : "2014-04-03T20:33:23Z",
  "metricName": "ASSERTS_REGULAR",
  "currentValue" : {
    "number" : 0.0,
    "units" : "RAW"
  },
  "links" : []
}