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Sign up hereYou can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically get and acknowledge your alerts.
Note: As with all of our API calls, authentication is required.
All alerts have the following properties:
Property |
Description |
Type |
| id | The alert id | String |
| type | The type of alert | String |
| internalId | The internal id for the alert | String |
| startEpoch | The time (in epoch format) that the alert started | Integer |
| endEpoch | The time (in epoch format) that the alert ended | Integer |
| acked | Whether or not the alert has been acknowledged | Boolean |
| ackedEpoch | The time (in epoch format) that the alert was acknowledged | Integer |
| ackedBy | The user that acknowledged the alert | String |
| ackComment | The comment submitted with the acknowledgement | String |
| rule | The rule the alert matches | String |
| ruleId | The id of the rule the alert matches | Integer |
| chain | The escalation chain the alert was routed to | String |
| chainId | The id of the escalation chain the alert was routed to | Integer |
| nextRecipient | The next recipient in the escalation chain for this alert. | Integer |
| receivedList | The recipients that have received the alert | JSON object |
| severity | The alert severity, where 2=warning, 3=error and 4=critical | String |
| cleared | Whether or not the alert has cleared | Boolean |
| sdted | Whether or not the alert was triggered during an SDT | Boolean |
| SDT | The active SDT, if one exists | String |
| alertValue | The value that triggered the alert | JSON Object |
| threshold | The threshold associated with the object in alert | String |
| clearValue | The value that cleared the alert | String |
| monitorObjectId | The id of the object that the alert is associated with | Integer |
| monitorObjectName | The name of the object that the alert is associated with | String |
| monitorObjectGroups | Information about the groups the object is a member of | JSON Object |
| resourceTemplateId | The id of the datasource in alert | Integer |
| resourceTemplateName | The name of the datasource in alert | String |
| instanceId | The id of the instance in alert | Integer |
| instanceName | The name of the instance in alert | String |
| instanceDescription | The description of the instance in alert | String |
| dataPointName | The name of the datapoint in alert | String |
| detailMessage | The alert message, if needMessage=true is included in the query parameters | JSON Object |