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stage: Monitor
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group: Health
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers
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# Generic alerts integration
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> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13203) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.4.
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> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/42640) to [GitLab Core](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) in 12.8.
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GitLab can accept alerts from any source via a generic webhook receiver.
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When you set up the generic alerts integration, a unique endpoint will
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be created which can receive a payload in JSON format, and will in turn
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create an issue with the payload in the body of the issue. You can always
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[customize the payload](#customizing-the-payload) to your liking.
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The entire payload will be posted in the issue discussion as a comment
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authored by the GitLab Alert Bot.
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NOTE: **Note**
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In GitLab versions 13.1 and greater, you can configure [External Prometheus instances](prometheus.md#external-prometheus-instances) to use this endpoint.
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## Setting up generic alerts
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To set up the generic alerts integration:
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1. Navigate to **Settings > Integrations** in a project.
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1. Click on **Alerts endpoint**.
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1. Toggle the **Active** alert setting. The `URL` and `Authorization Key` for the webhook configuration can be found there.
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## Customizing the payload
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You can customize the payload by sending the following parameters. All fields other than `title` are optional:
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| Property | Type | Description |
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| -------- | ---- | ----------- |
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| `title` | String | The title of the incident. Required. |
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| `description` | String | A high-level summary of the problem. |
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| `start_time` | DateTime | The time of the incident. If none is provided, a timestamp of the issue will be used. |
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| `service` | String | The affected service. |
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| `monitoring_tool` | String | The name of the associated monitoring tool. |
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| `hosts` | String or Array | One or more hosts, as to where this incident occurred. |
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| `severity` | String | The severity of the alert. Must be one of `critical`, `high`, `medium`, `low`, `info`, `unknown`. Default is `critical`. |
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| `fingerprint` | String or Array | The unique identifier of the alert. This can be used to group occurrences of the same alert. |
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TIP: **Payload size:**
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Ensure your requests are smaller than the [payload application limits](../../../administration/instance_limits.md#generic-alert-json-payloads).
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Example request:
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```shell
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curl --request POST \
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--data '{"title": "Incident title"}' \
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--header "Authorization: Bearer <authorization_key>" \
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--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
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<url>
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```
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The `<authorization_key>` and `<url>` values can be found when [setting up generic alerts](#setting-up-generic-alerts).
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Example payload:
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```json
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{
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"title": "Incident title",
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"description": "Short description of the incident",
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"start_time": "2019-09-12T06:00:55Z",
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"service": "service affected",
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"monitoring_tool": "value",
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"hosts": "value",
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"severity": "high",
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"fingerprint": "d19381d4e8ebca87b55cda6e8eee7385"
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}
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```
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