Alerting API

Use the Preferences API to get information about legacy dashboard alerts and their states. However, you can't use this API to modify the alert. To create new alerts or modify them you need to update the dashboard JSON that contains the alerts.

Note

To use a Grafana API with your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace, you must have a valid Grafana API key. You include this key in the Authorization field in the API request. For information about how to create a Grafana API key, see Using Grafana HTTP APIs.

Get alerts

GET /api/alerts

Example request

GET /api/alerts HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Querystring parameters:

These parameters are used as querystring parameters. For example: /api/alerts?dashboardId=1

• dashboardId— Limit the responses to alerts in the specified dashboards value. You can specify multiple dashboards. For example, dashboardId=23&dashboardId=35

• panelId— Limit the response to alert for a specified panel on a dashboard.

• query— Limit the response to alerts having a name like this value.

• state— Return the alerts that have one ore more of the following alert states: ALL, alerting, ok, no_data, paused, or pending. To specify multiple states, use the following format: ?state=paused&state=alerting

• limit— Limit the response to X number of alerts.

• folderId— Limit the response to alerts of dashboards in the specified folders. You can specify multiple folders. For example, folderId=23&folderId=35

• dashboardQuery— Limit the responses to alerts having a dashboard name like this value.

• dashboardTag— Limit the response alerts of dashboards with specified tags. To do "AND" filtering with multiple tags, specify the tags parameter multiple times. For example, dashboardTag=tag1&dashboardTag=tag2. Note that these are Grafana tags, not AWS tags.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "dashboardId": 1,
    "dashboardUId": "ABcdEFghij"
    "dashboardSlug": "sensors",
    "panelId": 1,
    "name": "fire place sensor",
    "state": "alerting",
    "newStateDate": "2018-05-14T05:55:20+02:00",
    "evalDate": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "evalData": null,
    "executionError": "",
    "url": "http://grafana.com/dashboard/db/sensors"
  }
]

Get alert by Id

GET /api/alerts/:id

Example request

GET /api/alerts/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": 1,
  "dashboardId": 1,
  "dashboardUId": "ABcdEFghij"
  "dashboardSlug": "sensors",
  "panelId": 1,
  "name": "fire place sensor",
  "state": "alerting",
  "message": "Someone is trying to break in through the fire place",
  "newStateDate": "2018-05-14T05:55:20+02:00",
  "evalDate": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "evalData": "evalMatches": [
    {
      "metric": "movement",
      "tags": {
        "name": "fireplace_chimney"
      },
      "value": 98.765
    }
  ],
  "executionError": "",
  "url": "http://grafana.com/dashboard/db/sensors"
}

Important

evalMatches data is cached in the database when and only when the state of the alert changes. If data from one server triggers the alert first and, before that server is seen leaving the alerting state, a second server also enters a state that would trigger the alert, the second server is not visible in the evalMatches data.

Pause alert by Id

POST /api/alerts/:id/pause

Example request

POST /api/alerts/1/pause HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "paused": true
}

The :id query parameter is the Id of the alert to be paused or unpaused. paused can be true to pause an alert or false to unpause the alert.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "alertId": 1,
  "state":   "Paused",
  "message": "alert paused"
}