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alert.get
Description
integer/array alert.get(object parameters)
The method allows to retrieve alerts according to the given parameters.
Parameters
(object) Parameters defining the desired output.
The method supports the following parameters.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| alertids | string/array | Return only alerts with the given IDs. |
| actionids | string/array | Return only alerts generated by the given actions. |
| eventids | string/array | Return only alerts generated by the given events. |
| groupids | string/array | Return only alerts generated by objects from the given host groups. |
| hostids | string/array | Return only alerts generated by objects from the given hosts. |
| mediatypeids | string/array | Return only message alerts that used the given media types. |
| objectids | string/array | Return only alerts generated by the given objects |
| userids | string/array | Return only message alerts that were sent to the given users. |
| eventobject | integer | Return only alerts generated by events related to objects of the given type. See event "object" for a list of supported object types. Default: 0 - trigger. |
| eventsource | integer | Return only alerts generated by events of the given type. See event "source" for a list of supported event types. Default: 0 - trigger events. |
| time_from | timestamp | Return only alerts that have been generated after the given time. |
| time_till | timestamp | Return only alerts that have been generated before the given time. |
| selectHosts | query | Return a hosts property with data of hosts that triggered the action operation. |
| selectMediatypes | query | Return a mediatypes property with an array of the media types that were used for the message alert. |
| selectUsers | query | Return a users property with an array of the users that the message was addressed to. See user.get for restrictions based on user type. |
| sortfield | string/array | Sort the result by the given properties. Possible values are: alertid, clock, eventid, mediatypeid, sendto and status. |
| countOutput | boolean | These parameters being common for all get methods are described in the reference commentary. |
| editable | boolean | |
| excludeSearch | boolean | |
| filter | object | |
| limit | integer | |
| output | query | |
| preservekeys | boolean | |
| search | object | |
| searchByAny | boolean | |
| searchWildcardsEnabled | boolean | |
| sortorder | string/array | |
| startSearch | boolean |
In Zabbix 5.0.46, Admin and User type users may retrieve "message" (0) type alert data only about their own user.
Return values
(integer/array) Returns either:
- an array of objects;
- the count of retrieved objects, if the
countOutputparameter has been used.
Examples
Retrieve alerts by action ID
Retrieve all alerts generated by action "3".
Request:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "alert.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"actionids": "3"
},
"auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"alertid": "1",
"actionid": "3",
"eventid": "21243",
"userid": "1",
"clock": "1362128008",
"mediatypeid": "1",
"sendto": "[email protected]",
"subject": "PROBLEM: Zabbix agent on Linux server is unreachable for 5 minutes: ",
"message": "Trigger: Zabbix agent on Linux server is unreachable for 5 minutes: \nTrigger status: PROBLEM\nTrigger severity: Not classified",
"status": "0",
"retries": "3",
"error": "",
"esc_step": "1",
"alerttype": "0",
"p_eventid": "0",
"acknowledgeid": "0"
}
],
"id": 1
}See also
Source
CAlert::get() in ui/include/classes/api/services/CAlert.php.