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REST call for alerts only

Karim — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:47:43 GMT

Hi everyone, is there a REST call (or another way) that i can make to cloudera manager to fetch the alerts only ?

Also, i figured that when there's an alert, the Alert Publisher custom script is called with a json containing all the alerts as an arguments, how can I get that json ?

thanks,

Karim

Re: REST call for alerts only

gzigldrum — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:12:09 GMT

By default no custom alert script is used, this has to be explicitly configured. Is alert email delivery or SNMP alerting not sufficient for your use case?

See https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5/latest/topics/cm_dg_alerts.html

Alternatively you can use the CM API to query events, a query filter like "alert==true" will retrieve only those events which are tagged as alert.

For more info how to use the CM API please see

http://cloudera.github.io/cm_api/
https://archive.cloudera.com/cm6/6.0.0/generic/jar/cm_api/apidocs/resource_EventsResource.html

Re: REST call for alerts only

Karim — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:09:35 GMT

Hi gzigldrum,

Thanks for your answer,

that's what i'm doing now, but everytime i do a call to /events endpoint using a basic authentication, it add the authentication event to the list as a "AUDIT_EVENT", is there a way to not add the audit events to the events list ?

Re: REST call for alerts only

gzigldrum — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:33:24 GMT

CM API request is an authenticated request to CM server which will be audit logged. One option for you may be to use a dedicated username for your CM API queries, and filter out this username in your query filter.