Incident API

This document will help you configure Incident API to route alerts from monitoring tools or your internal (bespoke) systems into Squadcast. Incident API can do both, trigger and resolve incidents in Squadcast, through HTTP POST requests. Route detailed monitoring alerts coming in via Incident API to the right users in Squadcast.

How to configure Incident API

In Squadcast: Using Incident API as an Alert Source

(1) From the navigation bar on the left, select Services. Pick the applicable Team from the Team-picker on the top. Next, click on Alert Sources for the applicable Service

(2) Search for Incident API from the Alert Source drop-down and copy the Webhook URL. Use this Webhook URL endpoint to send HTTP POST requests

The body of the POST request should contain the details of your incident in the following format:

{
  "message": "This will be the incident message",
  "description": "This will be the incident description",
  "tags" : {
    "tagname1":"Tag value#1",
     "tagname2":"Tag value#2",
     "tagname3": {
       "color": "Valid HTML HEX Colour Notation goes here",
       "value":"Tag value#3"
     }
  },
  "status": "trigger",
  "event_id": "6"
}

Event Identification and Resolution

This section will give you an understanding of how one can associate alerts with Squadcast incidents and resolve them with an API call.

Typical Incident JSON

{
  "message": "This will be the incident message",
  "description": "This will be the incident description",
  "status": "trigger",
  "event_id": "6"
}

This triggers an incident and associates the incident with the event_id value as specified. This event_id can be used to resolve the above created incident with an API call.

To resolve an incident, a JSON with the format as shown below should be sent.

{
  "status": "resolve",
  "event_id": "6"
}

• The status field should be set to value "resolve"
• The associated event_id should also be sent along with this

Add a Tag From directly Incident JSON

This section will give you an understanding of how you can add tags to an incident straight from the Incident JSON using the Incident API.

Typical Incident JSON:

{
   "message":"This will be the incident message",
   "description": "This will be the incident description",
   "tags": {
     "tagname1":"Tag value#1",
     "tagname2":"Tag value#2",
     "tagname3": {
       "color": "Valid HTML HEX Colour Notation goes here",
       "value":"Tag value#3"
     }
   }
}

Example 1: Using tags to set Severity for the incident

{
  	"message": "Error rates higher than usual",
    "description": "HTTP Error rates for srv_90 is above 90 counts/hour",
    "tags": {
    	"severity": "high"
    }
}

To specify a colour explicitly for tags:

{
	"message": "Error rates higher than usual",
  "description": "HTTP Error rates for srv_90 is above 90 counts/hour",
	"severity": {
  	"colour": "#FF0000",
  	"value":"backend"
  }
}

Example 2: Adding different tags to an incident

{
	"message": "Error rates higher than usual",
  "description": "HTTP Error rates for srv_90 is above 90 counts/hour",
	"tags" : {
   	"priority": "P1",
	  "impact_level": 5,
   	"classification": {
    	"color":"#FF0000",
     	"value":"backend"
     }
 	}
 }