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List alert types API

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List alert types API

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Retrieve a list of all alert types.

Request

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GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/alerts/list_alert_types

GET <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/alerts/list_alert_types

Path parameters

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space_id
(Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.

Response code

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200
Indicates a successful call.

Example

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$ curl -X GET api/alerts/list_alert_types
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The API returns the following:

[
   {
      "id":".index-threshold",
      "name":"Index threshold",
      "actionGroups":[
         {
            "id":"threshold met",
            "name":"Threshold met"
         },
         {
            "id":"recovered",
            "name":"Recovered"
         }
      ],
      "recoveryActionGroup":{
         "id":"recovered",
         "name":"Recovered"
      },
      "defaultActionGroupId":"threshold met",
      "actionVariables":{
         "context":[
            {
               "name":"message",
               "description":"A pre-constructed message for the alert."
            },
         ],
         "state":[],
         "params":[
            {
               "name":"threshold",
               "description":"An array of values to use as the threshold; 'between' and 'notBetween' require two values, the others require one."
            },
            {
               "name":"index",
               "description":"index"
            },
         ]
      },
      "producer":"stackAlerts",
      "minimumLicenseRequired":"basic",
      "enabledInLicense":true,
      "authorizedConsumers":{
         "alerts":{
            "read":true,
            "all":true
         },
         "stackAlerts":{
            "read":true,
            "all":true
         },
         "uptime":{
            "read":true,
            "all":true
         }
      }
   }
]

Each alert type contains the following properties:

name

The descriptive name of the alert type.

id

The unique ID of the alert type.

minimumLicenseRequired

The license required to use the alert type.

enabledInLicense

Whether the alert type is enabled or disabled based on the license.

actionGroups

An explicit list of groups for which the alert type can schedule actions, each with the action group’s unique ID and human readable name. Alert actions validation will use this configuration to ensure that groups are valid. Use kbn-i18n to translate the names of the action group when registering the alert type.

recoveryActionGroup

An action group to use when an alert instance goes from an active state, to an inactive one. Do not specify this action group under the actionGroups property. If recoveryActionGroup is not specified, the default recovered action group is used.

defaultActionGroupId

The default ID for the alert type group.

actionVariables

An explicit list of action variables that the alert type makes available via context and state in action parameter templates, and a short human readable description. The Alert UI will use this information to prompt users for these variables in action parameter editors. Use kbn-i18n to translate the descriptions.

producer

The ID of the application producing this alert type.

authorizedConsumers

The list of the plugins IDs that have access to the alert type.
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