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alert.get

Description

integer/array alert.get(object parameters)

The method allows to retrieve alerts according to the given parameters.

This method is available to users of any type. Permissions to call the method can be revoked in user role settings. See User roles for more information.

Parameters

(object) Parameters defining the desired output.

The method supports the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
alertids ID/array Return only alerts with the given IDs.
actionids ID/array Return only alerts generated by the given actions.
eventids ID/array Return only alerts generated by the given events.
groupids ID/array Return only alerts generated by objects from the given host groups.
hostids ID/array Return only alerts generated by objects from the given hosts.
mediatypeids ID/array Return only message alerts that used the given media types.
objectids ID/array Return only alerts generated by the given objects
userids ID/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.
sortfield string/array Sort the result by the given properties.

Possible values: alertid, clock, eventid, mediatypeid, sendto, 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

Return values

(integer/array) Returns either:

  • an array of objects;
  • the count of retrieved objects, if the countOutput parameter 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"
           },
           "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.