pagerduty_alert – Trigger, acknowledge or resolve PagerDuty incidents
Synopsis
- This module will let you trigger, acknowledge or resolve a PagerDuty incident by sending events
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- PagerDuty API access
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
---|---|---|
api_key - / required | The pagerduty API key (readonly access), generated on the pagerduty site. | |
client - | The name of the monitoring client that is triggering this event. | |
client_url - | The URL of the monitoring client that is triggering this event. | |
desc - | Default: "Created via Ansible" | For triggered state - Required. Short description of the problem that led to this trigger. This field (or a truncated version) will be used when generating phone calls, SMS messages and alert emails. It will also appear on the incidents tables in the PagerDuty UI. The maximum length is 1024 characters.For acknowledged or resolved state - Text that will appear in the incident's log associated with this event. |
incident_key - added in 2.7 | Identifies the incident to which this state should be applied. For triggered state - If there's no open (i.e. unresolved) incident with this key, a new one will be created. If there's already an open incident with a matching key, this event will be appended to that incident's log. The event key provides an easy way to "de-dup" problem reports.For acknowledged or resolved state - This should be the incident_key you received back when the incident was first opened by a trigger event. Acknowledge events referencing resolved or nonexistent incidents will be discarded. | |
integration_key - / required added in 2.7 | The GUID of one of your "Generic API" services. This is the "integration key" listed on a "Integrations" tab of PagerDuty service. | |
name - | PagerDuty unique subdomain. Obsolete. It is not used with PagerDuty REST v2 API. | |
service_id - / required added in 2.7 | ID of PagerDuty service when incidents will be triggered, acknowledged or resolved. | |
service_key - | The GUID of one of your "Generic API" services. Obsolete. Please use integration_key. | |
state - / required |
| Type of event to be sent. |
Examples
# Trigger an incident with just the basic options - pagerduty_alert: name: companyabc integration_key: xxx api_key: yourapikey service_id: PDservice state: triggered desc: problem that led to this trigger # Trigger an incident with more options - pagerduty_alert: integration_key: xxx api_key: yourapikey service_id: PDservice state: triggered desc: problem that led to this trigger incident_key: somekey client: Sample Monitoring Service client_url: http://service.example.com # Acknowledge an incident based on incident_key - pagerduty_alert: integration_key: xxx api_key: yourapikey service_id: PDservice state: acknowledged incident_key: somekey desc: "some text for incident's log" # Resolve an incident based on incident_key - pagerduty_alert: integration_key: xxx api_key: yourapikey service_id: PDservice state: resolved incident_key: somekey desc: "some text for incident's log"
Status
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors
- Amanpreet Singh (@ApsOps)
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