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 2012-2024 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
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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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