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/.

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
SSL client cert	sslcert	n/a	n/a	None
SSL client key	sslkey	n/a	n/a	None
timeout	timeout	n/a	n/a	5s TCP connection timeout
output	output	n/a	--output-format OUTPUT	simple
color	color	CLICOLOR	--color, --no-color	color on
debug	debug	DEBUG	--debug	no debug

Example

Configuration file ~/.alerta.conf::

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

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

[profile development]
endpoint = https://localhost:8443
sslverify = off
timeout = 10.0
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
Usage: alerta [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Alerta client unified command-line tool.

Options:
  --config-file <FILE>      Configuration file.
  --profile <PROFILE>       Configuration profile.
  --endpoint-url <URL>      API endpoint URL.
  --output-format <FORMAT>  Output format. eg. simple, grid, psql, presto, rst
  --color / --no-color      Color-coded output based on severity.
  --debug                   Debug mode.
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  ack         Acknowledge alerts
  blackout    Suppress alerts
  blackouts   List alert suppressions
  close       Close alerts
  customer    Add customer lookup
  customers   List customer lookups
  delete      Delete alerts
  heartbeat   Send a heartbeat
  heartbeats  List heartbeats
  help        Show this help
  history     Show alert history
  key         Create API key
  keys        List API keys
  login       Login with user credentials
  logout      Clear login credentials
  perm        Add role-permission lookup
  perms       List role-permission lookups
  query       Search for alerts
  raw         Show alert raw data
  revoke      Revoke API key
  send        Send an alert
  status      Display status and metrics
  tag         Tag alerts
  token       Display current auth token
  unack       Un-acknowledge alerts
  untag       Untag alerts
  update      Update alert attributes
  uptime      Display server uptime
  user        Update user
  users       List users
  version     Display version info
  whoami      Display current logged in user

Python SDK

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

Example

>>> from alertaclient.api import Client

>>> client = Client(key='NGLxwf3f4-8LlYN4qLjVEagUPsysn0kb9fAkAs1l')
>>> client.send_alert(environment='Production', service=['Web', 'Application'], resource='web01', event='HttpServerError', value='501', text='Web server unavailable.')
Alert(id='42254ef8-7258-4300-aaec-a9ad7d3a84ff', environment='Production', resource='web01', event='HttpServerError', severity='normal', status='closed', customer=None)

>>> [a.id for a in client.search([('resource','~we.*01'), ('environment!', 'Development')])]
['42254ef8-7258-4300-aaec-a9ad7d3a84ff']

>>> client.heartbeat().serialize()['status']
'ok'

License

Alerta monitoring system and console
Copyright 2012-2020 Nick Satterly

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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