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    8. Integrations
      1. New Relic
      2. Datadog
      3. AWS CloudWatch
      4. Amazon SNS
      5. Microsoft Azure
      6. Google Monitoring
      7. Grafana
        1. List Grafana integrations GET
        2. Get Grafana integration GET
        3. Create Grafana integration POST
        4. Update Grafana integration PATCH
        5. Remove Grafana integration DELETE
      8. Elastic
      9. Prometheus
      10. E-mail
      11. Incoming webhooks
      12. Atlassian Jira
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      14. Outgoing webhooks
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      16. Splunk On-Call
      17. PagerDuty
      18. Catalog
    9. Team members
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Create Grafana integration

Returns either a newly created Grafana integration, or validation errors.

POST https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/grafana-integrations

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

Content-Type
string

application/json

Body parameters

team_name
string

Required if using global API token to specify the team which should own the resource

name
string

The name of the Grafana integration that you can see in the dashboard.

policy_id
string

ID of the escalation policy associated with the Grafana integration.

call
boolean

Call the on-call person.

sms
boolean

Send an SMS to the on-call person.

email
boolean

Send an e-mail to the on-call person.

push
boolean

Send a push notification to the on-call person.

critical_alert
boolean

Send a critical push notification that ignores the mute switch and Do not Disturb mode.

team_wait
integer

How long we wait before escalating the incident alert to the team. In seconds.

recovery_period
integer

Has no effect for this integration, since an incident resolves as soon as Grafana reports the alert as resolved.

paused
boolean

Set to true to pause the integration, false to unpause it.

201

Returns the newly created Grafana integration. Point your Grafana webhook to the returned webhook_url

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "37",
    "type": "grafana_integration",
    "attributes": {
      "call": false,
      "sms": true,
      "email": true,
      "team_wait": 180,
      "recovery_period": null,
      "policy_id": null,
      "push": false,
      "critical_alert": false,
      "name": "Grafana alerts",
      "webhook_url": "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v1/grafana/webhook/[token]",
      "team_name": "Testing",
      "paused": false
    }
  }
}

Example cURL

Example
curl -X "POST" "https://incidents.betterstack.com/api/v2/grafana-integrations/" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
     -d $'{
  "name": "Grafana alerts",
  "sms": true,
  "team_wait": 180
}'


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