salt.states.victorops

Create an Event in VictorOps

This state is useful for creating events on the VictorOps service during state runs.

webserver-warning-message:
  victorops.create_event:
    - message_type: 'CRITICAL'
    - entity_id: 'webserver/diskspace'
    - state_message: 'Webserver diskspace is low.'

salt.states.victorops.create_event(name, message_type, routing_key='everyone', **kwargs)

Create an event on the VictorOps service

webserver-warning-message:
  victorops.create_event:
    - message_type: 'CRITICAL'
    - entity_id: 'webserver/diskspace'
    - state_message: 'Webserver diskspace is low.'

database-server-warning-message:
  victorops.create_event:
    - message_type: 'WARNING'
    - entity_id: 'db_server/load'
    - state_message: 'Database Server load is high.'
    - entity_is_host: True
    - entity_display_name: 'dbdserver.example.com'

The following parameters are required:

name

This is a short description of the event.

message_type

One of the following values: INFO, WARNING, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, CRITICAL, RECOVERY.

The following parameters are optional:

routing_key

The key for where messages should be routed. By default, sent to 'everyone' route.

entity_id

The name of alerting entity. If not provided, a random name will be assigned.

timestamp

Timestamp of the alert in seconds since epoch. Defaults to the time the alert is received at VictorOps.

timestamp_fmt

The date format for the timestamp parameter. Defaults to ''%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'.

state_start_time

The time this entity entered its current state (seconds since epoch). Defaults to the time alert is received.

state_start_time_fmt

The date format for the timestamp parameter. Defaults to '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'.

state_message

Any additional status information from the alert item.

entity_is_host

Used within VictorOps to select the appropriate display format for the incident.

entity_display_name

Used within VictorOps to display a human-readable name for the entity.

ack_message

A user entered comment for the acknowledgment.

ack_author

The user that acknowledged the incident.