Alerta Command-Line Tool

Unified command-line tool, terminal GUI and python SDK for the Alerta monitoring system.

Related projects can be found on the Alerta Org Repo at https://github.com/alerta/.

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Installation

To install the Alerta CLI tool run::

$ pip install alerta

Configuration

Options can be set in a configuration file, as environment variables or on the command line. Profiles can be used to easily switch between different configuration settings.

Option	Config File	Environment Variable	Optional Argument	Default
file	n/a	ALERTA_CONF_FILE	n/a	~/.alerta.conf
profile	profile	ALERTA_DEFAULT_PROFILE	--profile PROFILE	None
endpoint	endpoint	ALERTA_ENDPOINT	--endpoint-url URL	http://localhost:8080
key	key	ALERTA_API_KEY	n/a	None
timezone	timezone	n/a	n/a	Europe/London
SSL verify	sslverify	REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE	n/a	verify SSL certificates
output	output	n/a	--output OUTPUT, --json	text
color	color	CLICOLOR	--color, --no-color	color on
debug	debug	DEBUG	--debug	no debug

Example

Configuration file ~/.alerta.conf::

[DEFAULT]
timezone = Australia/Sydney
# output = json
profile = production

[profile production]
endpoint = https://api.alerta.io
key = demo-key

[profile development]
endpoint = https://localhost:8443
sslverify = off
debug = yes

Environment Variables

Set environment variables to use production configuration settings by default::

$ export ALERTA_CONF_FILE=~/.alerta.conf
$ export ALERTA_DEFAULT_PROFILE=production

$ alerta query

And to switch to development configuration settings when required use the --profile option::

$ alerta --profile development query

Usage

$ alerta help
usage: alerta [OPTIONS] COMMAND [FILTERS]

Alerta client unified command-line tool

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --profile PROFILE   Profile to apply from /Users/nsatterl/.alerta.conf
  --endpoint-url URL  API endpoint URL
  --output OUTPUT     Output format of "text" or "json"
  --json, -j          Output in JSON format. Shortcut for "--output json"
  --color, --colour   Color-coded output based on severity
  --debug             Print debug output

Commands:
  COMMAND
    send              Send alert to server
    query             List alerts based on query filter
    watch             Watch alerts based on query filter
    top               Show top offenders and stats
    raw               Show alert raw data
    history           Show alert history
    tag               Tag alerts
    untag             Remove tags from alerts
    ack               Acknowledge alerts
    unack             Unacknowledge alerts
    close             Close alerts
    delete            Delete alerts
    blackout          Blackout alerts based on attributes
    blackouts         List all blackout periods
    heartbeat         Send heartbeat to server
    heartbeats        List all heartbeats
    user              Manage user details (Basic Auth only).
    status            Show status and metrics
    uptime            Show server uptime
    version           Show alerta version info
    help              Show this help

Filters:
    Query parameters can be used to filter alerts by any valid alert attribute

    resource=web01     Show alerts with resource equal to "web01"
    resource!=web01    Show all alerts except those with resource of "web01"
    event=~down        Show alerts that include "down" in event name
    event!=~down       Show all alerts that don't have "down" in event name

    Special query parameters include "limit", "sort-by", "from-date" and "q" (a
    json-compliant mongo query).

Python SDK

The alerta client python package can also be used as a Python SDK.

Example

>>> from alertaclient.api import ApiClient
>>> from alertaclient.alert import Alert
>>>
>>> api = ApiClient(endpoint='http://api.alerta.io', key='tiPMW41QA+cVy05E7fQA/roxAAwHqZq/jznh8MOk')
>>> alert = Alert(resource='foo', event='bar')
>>> alert
Alert(id='6e625266-fb7c-4c11-bf95-27a6a0be432b', environment='', resource='foo', event='bar', severity='normal', status='unknown')
>>> api.send(alert)
{u'status': u'ok', u'id': u'5fdb224b-9378-422d-807e-fdf8610416d2'}

>>> api.get_alert('5fdb224b-9378-422d-807e-fdf8610416d2')['alert']['severity']
u'normal'
>>>
>>> api.get_alerts(resource='foo')['alerts'][0]['id']
u'5fdb224b-9378-422d-807e-fdf8610416d2'

>>> from alertaclient.heartbeat import Heartbeat
>>> hb = Heartbeat(origin='baz')
>>> hb
Heartbeat(id='21d586a6-9bd5-4b18-b0bb-4fb876db4851', origin='baz', create_time=datetime.datetime(2014, 6, 14, 20, 2, 33, 55118), timeout=300)
>>> api.send(hb)
{u'status': u'ok', u'id': u'6bf11e97-9664-4fa3-b830-8e6d0d84b4cc'}
>>>

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Nick Satterly. Available under the MIT License.